Waiting for the Barbarians
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0099465930
ISBN 13
9780099465935
Category
Fiction/Littérature
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Publication Year
1997
Publisher
Pages
170
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Abstract
For decades the Magistrate has been a loyal servant of the Empire, running the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement and ignoring the impending war with the barbarians. When interrogation experts arrive, however, he witnesses the Empire's cruel and unjust treatment of prisoners of war. Jolted into sympathy for their victims, he commits a quixotic act of rebellion that brands him an enemy of the state.J. M. Coetzee's prize-winning novel is a startling allegory of the war between opressor and opressed. The Magistrate is not simply a man living through a crisis of conscience in an obscure place in remote times; his situation is that of all men living in unbearable complicity with regimes that ignore justice and decency.
Number of Copies
1
Library | Accession No | Call No | Copy No | Edition | Location | Availability |
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CRL Institut Le Bel | 2957 | LIV ANG FICT | 1 | Yes |