Waiting for the barbarians

By:

Coetzee, J.M

Publication details: Vintage Books, 2004. London:Description: 169p.; pbk; 20cmISBN:

9780099465935

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

823.914 COE

Summary: 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. https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/358163/waiting-for-the-barbarians-by-coetzee-jm/9780099465935

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	IIT Gandhinagar	General	823.914 COE (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		032382

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.

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/358163/waiting-for-the-barbarians-by-coetzee-jm/9780099465935

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