COETZEE, J.M.
Waiting for the Barbarians.
London: Secker & Warburg , 1980.
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First edition, preceding the South African first. Octavo, original boards. Fine in a fine price-clipped dust jacket. Signed by Coetzee on the title page. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. A very bright copy, uncommon in this condition.
Waiting for the Barbarians is an allegory of oppressor and oppressed. Not just a man living through a crisis of conscience in an obscure place in remote times, the Magistrate is an analogue of all men living in complicity with regimes that ignore justice and decency. "I have known few authors who can evoke such a wilderness in the heart of a man.... Mr. Coetzee knows the elusive terror of Kafka" (Bernard Levin, The Sunday Times).
Waiting for the Barbarians.
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