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Waiting for the barbarians

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Waiting for the barbarians
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The beast that lurks within us must be turned only on ourselves. The Nameless Magistrate has been a loyal servant of the Nameless Empire for many years, running things in a tiny colonial town somewhere in the Middle East. The town's inhabitants live in constant fear: they are so afraid of invading barbarians that at a certain point they decide to take matters into their own hands. The magistrate, shocked by the cruelty of those around him, tries to show humanity, but it only leads to the fact that the state machine turns against itself.
Coetzee's famous novel is a parable about the confrontation between man and regime, oppression and cruelty. The dense and complex text raises eternal questions and deprives you of peace: a brilliant philosophical novel that can change the reader.
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