WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS PB
Εκδότης Vintage , ISBN 9780099465935
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.
Περίληψη
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.
Πληροφορίες προϊόντος
- Συγγραφέας COETZEE J.M,Coetzee, J. M.
- Eκδότης Vintage
- ISBN 9780099465935
- Κωδικός Ευριπίδη 040100028432
- Έτος κυκλοφορίας
- Σελίδες 0
- Διαστάσεις
- Βάρος 350 gr