Waiting for the Barbarians
For decades the Magistrate has run the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement, ignoring the impending war between the barbarians and the Empire, whose servant he is. But when the interrogation experts arrive, he is jolted into sympathy with the victims and into a quixotic act of rebellion which...
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For decades the Magistrate has run the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement, ignoring the impending war between the barbarians and the Empire, whose servant he is. But when the interrogation experts arrive, he is jolted into sympathy with the victims and into a quixotic act of rebellion which lands him in prison, branded as an enemy of the state. Waiting for the Barbarians is an allegory of oppressor and oppressed. Not just a man living through a crisis of conscience in an obscure place in remote times, the Magistrate is an analogue of all men living in complicity with regimes that ignore justice and decency.
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Format: papier
ISBN:
0099465930
Publish date: 9 września 1997
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 170
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
Cultural,
Africa,
Historical Fiction,
20th Century,
Contemporary,
Nobel Prize,
African Literature,
Fiction
Jak łatwo zostać barbarzyńcą, nawet wśród swoich
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