Waiting for the Barbarians

By J. M. Coetzee

Subjects: Immigré, Histoire, Inégalité sociale, Allegorías, Problèmes sociaux, Administradores coloniales, Emigration and immigration, Minorities, Government policy, Drug abuse, Fiction, Fiction, psychological, Civilisation, Aspect social, Immigrants, Africa, fiction, Gardeners, Altérité, Ficción, Social problems, Répression politique, Enquêtes, Allegory, Toxicomanie, Romans, nouvelles, Political persecution, Colonial administrators, Toxicomane, Allegories, Foreign workers, Employment, Migration, Racism, Émigration et immigration, Marginalité, Fiction, general, Social aspects, General

Description: 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 for the victims, and into a quixotic act of rebellion which lands him in prison.