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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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Waiting for the Barbarians, John Maxwell Coetzee
- Jazyk
- Rok vydání
- 1980
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- Titul
- Waiting for the Barbarians
- Jazyk
- anglicky
- Autoři
- John Maxwell Coetzee
- Vydavatel
- Penguin Group
- Rok vydání
- 1980
- Vazba
- měkká
- ISBN10
- 0140283358
- ISBN13
- 9780140283358
- Série
- Štítky
- Beletrie, Historické romány, Láska, Klasika, Politika, Válečná próza, Války, Afrika, Zfilmováno, Násilí, Psychologické romány, Nobelova cena, Jihoafrická republika, Mučení, Diktatura, Útlak, Britské impérium, Jihoafrická literatura, Barbaři, Ochrana státní hranice
- První vydání
- 1980
- Původní název
- Waiting for the Barbarians
- Hodnocení
- 3,95 z 5
- Anotace
- 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.