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Key ideas from the book
- The Magistrate’s response to the victims of interrogation prompts a crisis of conscience.
- The novel explores the relationship between oppressors and the people they oppress.
- Serving an unjust regime can make a person complicit in its disregard for justice and decency.
- An act of rebellion against state authority can bring imprisonment and accusations of treachery.
About Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee
For decades, a Magistrate has managed a tiny frontier settlement on behalf of an Empire, while a possible war with the people it calls barbarians looms. The arrival of interrogation experts changes his outlook: sympathy for their victims leads him to an act of rebellion and imprisonment as an enemy of the state.
Coetzee’s novel is an allegory of oppressor and oppressed, examining the Magistrate’s crisis of conscience and the complicity of people who serve regimes that disregard justice and decency. It will suit readers interested in literary and political fiction about power, resistance, and moral responsibility.
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