| Ubicación : | 823.914/C566w | | Autores: | Coetzee, J.M., Autor | | Título : | Waiting for the barbarians| Fuente : | London [GB] : Penguin Books, 1980, 156 p. | | Temas : | ENGLISH NOVEL - 20TH CENTURY, ENGLISH LITERATURE - 20TH CENTURY | | Resumen : | It is a novel that explores themes of colonialism, power, and morality through the story of an unnamed magistrate in an isolated frontier town under the rule of a distant empire.
The novel takes place in an isolated frontier outpost, where a magistrate leads a quiet, routine life, studying local historical artifacts. His apparent stability is disrupted by the arrival of Colonel Joll, a man obsessed with the barbarian threat and who employs brutal methods, including torture, to extract information from the natives.
The magistrate, initially indifferent to the torture, begins to question the legitimacy of the empire's actions and develops empathy for the "barbarians," especially for a young woman who has been tortured and mutilated. The magistrate attempts to protect her and, in an act of defiance of the empire, returns her to her people. This act leads to his arrest and accusation of treason.
The novel culminates with the magistrate's imprisonment, where he reflects on the nature of justice, morality, and individual responsibility in a context of imperial oppression. In his final moments, the magistrate realizes that violence and oppression not only affect the "barbarians" but also corrupt those who exercise them and those who tolerate them....leer masleer menos | |
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