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LC Class. PR9369.3.C58 W3 1980. Waiting for the Barbarians is a novel by the South African writer J. M. Coetzee. First published in 1980, it was chosen by Penguin for its series Great Books of the 20th Century and won both the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for fiction. American composer Philip Glass has also ...
- John Maxwell Coetzee
- 1980
Dec 1, 1980 · (Book 287 from 1001 books) - Waiting For The Barbarians, J.M. Coetzee Waiting for the Barbarians is a novel by the South African-born Nobel laureate J. M. Coetzee. First published in 1980. The story is narrated in the first person by the unnamed magistrate of a small colonial town that exists as the territorial frontier of "the Empire".
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Waiting for the Barbarians. Paperback – 2 Sept. 2004. 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 ...
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- J.M. Coetzee
May 28, 2015 · Waiting for the Barbarians. Kindle Edition. by J.M. Coetzee (Author) Format: Kindle Edition. 1,613. See all formats and editions. The modern classic from double Booker Prize winner J.M. Coetzee – soon to be a major film starring Mark Rylance, Robert Pattinson and Johnny Depp. For decades the Magistrate has run the affairs of a tiny frontier ...
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Apr 29, 1982 · Praise for Waiting for the Barbarians: “J.M. Coetzee’s vison goes to the nerve-center of being. What he finds there is more than most people will ever know about themselves, and he conveys it with a brilliant writer’s mastery of tension and elegance.” —Nadine Gordimer “A remarkable and original book.” —Graham Greene “Coetzee, with laconic brilliance, articulates one of the ...
- John Maxwell Coetzee
- $14.99
- Penguin Books
J. M. Coetzee. Waiting for the Barbarians Summary. The main protagonist of the novel is a nameless civil servant, who serves as magistrate to a frontier settlement owned by a nameless empire. The Empire, a vague colonialist regime, sets itself in opposition to the “barbarians,” mysterious nomadic peoples who live in the wild lands bordering ...
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Jan 3, 2017 · Praise for Waiting for the Barbarians: “J.M. Coetzee’s vison goes to the nerve-center of being. What he finds there is more than most people will ever know about themselves, and he conveys it with a brilliant writer’s mastery of tension and elegance.” —Nadine Gordimer “A remarkable and original book.” —Graham Greene “Coetzee, with laconic brilliance, articulates one of the ...
- J. M. Coetzee
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