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- 9780143116929
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0143116924
ISBN-13
9780143116929
eBay Product ID (ePID)
79238101
Product Key Features
Book Title
Waiting for the Barbarians : a Novel (Penguin Ink)
Number of Pages
192 Pages
Language
English
Topic
War & Military, General, Literary, Historical
Publication Year
2010
Illustrator
Yes, Askew, C. C.
Genre
Fiction
Format
Uk-B Format Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.5 in
Item Weight
6.6 Oz
Item Length
7.7 in
Item Width
5.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2010-514024
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
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 basic problems of our time--how to understand the mentality behind brutality and injustice." --Anthony Burgess, New York "A real literary event." --Irving Howe, The New York Times Book Review "I have known few authors who can evoke such a wilderness in the heart of a man . . . Coetzee knows the elusive terror of Kafka." --Bernard Levin, The Sunday Times (London), "A real literary event" -- Irving Howe , The New York Times Book Review (front-page review) "I have known few authors who can evoke such a wilderness in the heart of a man.... Mr. Coetzee knows the elusive terror of Kafka." -- Bernard Levin, The Sunday Times (London), "A real literary event" - Irving Howe , The New York Times Book Review (front-page review) "I have known few authors who can evoke such a wilderness in the heart of a man.... Mr. Coetzee knows the elusive terror of Kafka." - Bernard Levin, The Sunday Times (London)
Grade From
Twelfth Grade
Dewey Decimal
823/.914
Synopsis
A modern classic by Nobel Laureate J.M. Coetzee. His latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus , is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2016 will be available January 2018. Waiting for the Barbarians centers on the crisis of the conscience of the Magistrate--a loyal servant of the Empire working in a tiny frontier town, doing his best to ignore an inevitable war with the "barbarians." After he witnesses the cruel and unjust treatment of prisoners of war, he reconsiders his role in the regime and carries out a quixotic act of rebellion. Mark Rylance ( Wolf Hall , Bridge of Spies ), Ciro Guerra, and producer Michael Fitzgerald are teaming up to to bring J.M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians to the big screen., NOW A FILM STARRING MARK RYLANCE, JOHNNY DEPP, AND ROBERT PATTINSON A modern classic by Nobel Laureate J. M. Coetzee 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. When interrogation experts arrive, however, he finds himself jolted into sympathy with their victims--until their barbarous treatment of prisoners of war finally pushes him into a quixotic act of rebellion, and thus into imprisonment as an enemy of the state. Waiting for the Barbarians , J. M. Coetzee's third novel, which won the James Tate Black Memorial Prize, is an 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 elevate their own survival above justice and decency., A modern classic by Nobel Laureate J. M. Coetzee, now a major motion picture starring 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. When interrogation experts arrive, however, he finds himself jolted into sympathy with their victims--until their barbarous treatment of prisoners of war finally pushes him into a quixotic act of rebellion, and thus into imprisonment as an enemy of the state. Waiting for the Barbarians , J. M. Coetzee's third novel, which won the James Tate Black Memorial Prize, is an 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 elevate their own survival above justice and decency.
LC Classification Number
PR9369.3.C58W3 2010
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