Waiting for the Barbarians (häftad)
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Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
176
Utgivningsdatum
2004-09-01
Utmärkelser
Winner of Nobel Prize 2003
Förlag
Vintage
Dimensioner
200 x 130 x 15 mm
Vikt
120 g
Komponenter
,
ISBN
9780099465935

Waiting for the Barbarians

av J M Coetzee
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Häftad,  Engelska, 2004-09-01
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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.
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  1. Läsvärt perspektiv på den mänskliga naturen
    filip hammarberg, 12 februari 2015

    En intressant bok, både som äventyr och som perspektiv på den mänskliga naturen. Enkelt och effektivt skriven, som vanligt med Coetzee.

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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. Coetzees 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 writers mastery of tension and elegance A remarkable and original book

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J.M. Coetzees 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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