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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 oppressor and oppressed. 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.
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Waiting for the Barbarians, John Maxwell Coetzee
- Idioma
- Publicado en
- 1980
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- Título
- Waiting for the Barbarians
- Idioma
- Inglés
- Autores
- John Maxwell Coetzee
- Editorial
- Penguin Group
- Publicado en
- 1980
- Formato
- Tapa blanda
- ISBN10
- 0140283358
- ISBN13
- 9780140283358
- Serie
- Etiquetas
- Ficción, Novelas históricas, Amor, Clásicos, Política, Prosa bélica, Guerras, África, Adaptada al cine, Violencia, Novelas psicológicas, Premio Nobel, República Sudafricana, Tortura, Dictadura, Opresión, Imperio Británico, Literatura sudafricana, Bárbaros, Protección de la frontera estatal
- Primera publicación
- 1980
- Título original
- Waiting for the Barbarians
- Calificación
- 3,95 de 5
- Descripción
- 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 oppressor and oppressed. 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.