Waiting For The Barbarians J. M. Coetzee

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Zusammenfassung

Coetzee - soon to be a major film starring Mark Rylance, Robert Pattinson and Johnny DeppFor 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.

Waiting For The Barbarians Zusammenfassung

Waiting For The Barbarians J. M. Coetzee

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 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.

Waiting For The Barbarians Bewertungen

"Brilliant . . . The story of an imaginary Empire, set in an unspecified place and time . . . A realistic fable, at once exciting and economical . . . A distinguished piece of fiction" * New York Times *
"A writer of formidable strength. His novel is important not only for its theme but also for the beauty and clarity of his style" * Daily Telegraph *
"I have known few authors who can evoke such a wilderness in the heart of man . . . Coetzee knows the elusive terror of Kafka" * Sunday Times *
"J.M. Coetzee's vision goes to the nerve centre 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"
"A remarkable and original book"

Über J. M. Coetzee

J.M. Coetzee's work includes Waiting for the Barbarians, Life & Times of Michael K, Boyhood, Youth, Disgrace, Summertime, The Childhood of Jesus and, most recently, The Schooldays of Jesus. He was the first author to win the Booker Prize twice and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003.

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Sku

GOR001314439

ISBN 13

9780099465935

ISBN 10

0099465930

Titel

Waiting For The Barbarians J. M. Coetzee

Autor

J. M. Coetzee

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Bindung

Broschiert

Verlag

Vintage Publishing

Datum

2004-09-02

Anzahl der Seiten

176

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