Waiting for the Barbarians

By J. M. Coetzee

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

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.