Waiting for the Barbarians (Penguin Ink)
by:
J.M. Coetzee (author)
Chris Conn (author)
C.C. Askew (author)
A modern classic, this early novel by Nobel Laureate J. M. Coetzee centers on the crisis of conscience and morality of the Magistrate-a loyal servant of the Empire working in a tiny frontier town, doing his best to ignore an inevitable war with the "barbarians."
A modern classic, this early novel by Nobel Laureate J. M. Coetzee centers on the crisis of conscience and morality of the Magistrate-a loyal servant of the Empire working in a tiny frontier town, doing his best to ignore an inevitable war with the "barbarians."
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Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9780143116929 (0143116924)
ASIN: 143116924
Publish date: June 29th 2010
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 180
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
20th Century,
Contemporary,
Nobel Prize,
African Literature
This is my second book by Coetzee after reading Disgrace. It is very different from Disgrace being a sort of Kafkaesque parable. It is about a magistrate that administers a sleepy backwater for the Empire. There are Barbarians outside the gates. The Magistrate eventually comes to sympathize with...
This is one of those short books that impacts you sometimes like a punch in the gut, and sometimes with a far more quiet, lingering power. Beautifully written in a spare, but often lyrical, style and intimate first-person voice, it has the quality of a fairytale or allegory. Narrated by a man we kno...
This is a fable that takes place in an unnamed border town between an imaginary Empire and its wild frontier. The town's aging Magistrate undergoes a trial of values and conscience as his peaceful routine is shattered by the Empire's declaration of war against nomadic tribes living outside its juris...
Ein gute Geschichte über Krieg, Politik, Folter und Erniedrigung und die Folgen daraus für Täter und Opfer und vor allem für die Zivilbevölkerung einer Stadt irgendwo an einer Grenze in einem fiktiven Land.Leider sprang bei mir der Funke nicht über und ich hab mich lange gefragt, warum das so ist. W...
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