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Waiting for the Barbarians

J.M. Coetzee

Paperback | Pages: 152 pages

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Original Title:	Waiting for the Barbarians
ISBN:	0140283358 (ISBN13: 9780140283358)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	The Magistrate
Literary Awards:	James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction (1980), Philip K. Dick Award Nominee (1983), CNA Literary Award (1980), Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize (1981)

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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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Title	:	Waiting for the Barbarians
Author	:	J.M. Coetzee
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 152 pages
Published	:	October 1st 1999 by Penguin Books (first published December 1980)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Africa. Classics. Novels. Literature. Southern Africa. South Africa. Historical. Historical Fiction

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Just finished reading. A few quick thoughts:We are living in very disturbing times where each party is rejoicing in what is theirs.I found Waiting for the Barbarians to be a book that was very difficult to put down. Thoughts, feelings, grievances, and resentments that I thought had been buried began to rise to the surface. I've always detested the word barbarians, a word whose etymology comes from the Berber people, of Barbary in North Africa. I equally detest the word philistine, sounding

Waiting for the Barbarians, my first novel by the 2003 recipient Nobel Prize in Literature, was a distinguished piece of fiction, one of urgency and profundity, written with a lingering Faulkneresque prose. The story of an imaginary Empire, set in an unspecified place and time, yet recognizable as a version of his country of birth, South Africa, allows Coetzee some esthetic distance from his subject, for even while remaining locked with the history of his moment, he isn't completely at the mercy

What a powerful piece of prose! The main character is an anti-hero, a magistrate in an outpost of an Empire; he's been there for twenty years and has elapsed into a kind of routine. But then suddenly an army-kolonel turns up who wants to combat the barbarians at the other side of the frontier. The magistrate registers the sudden indications of torture and injustice, does not understand why simple nomads are declared enemies; his fascination focusses especially on a blind and cripple nomad-girl.

J.M. Coetzees Waiting for the Barbarians is a stark, allegorical tale that is haunting, strange and filled with impending menace from page one. It is the tale of The Magistrate, a mid-level bureaucrat who presides over a small settlement on the edge of a pre-industrial Empire. The Empire is not named, the Barbarians are not specified, and though the particulars of the settings are echoed by historical counterparts, Coetzee leaves out enough details to make the place timeless, universal,

"From such beginnings grow obsessions: I am warned." pg.79This quote, taken wildly out of context, serves as an accurate description of my first experience reading J.M. Coetzee. Having read this small book in its entirety throughout the last twenty four hours, I now have the urge to read his other works as soon as possible. It is interesting how Mr. Coetzee and this book in particular have become a recurring Goodreads meme of sorts over the last few weeks, so i'm guessing that i'm not alone in

A haunting, timeless classic that will endure as long as barbaric oppression in the name of 'rule of law' exists. This one's going to stay with me for a long time.

"They do not care that once the ground is cleared the wind begins to eat at the soil and the desert advances. Thus the expeditionary force against the barbarians prepared for its campaign, ravaging the earth, wasting our patrimony."Is this--my 5th one read--THE quintessential Coetzee? (I may or not be nodding my head.)Earlier than "Life & Times of Micheal K.", it is here that we see the true beginnings of Coetzee's motifs, as well as the accomplished writer's poetics. A man whose fortune is