Type, Personalisation and Depersonalisation in J.M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians
Waiting for the Barbarians (1980) recounts the rebellion of the Magistrate of an Empire frontier outpost against the torture inflicted on those the Imperial administration which employs him considers as “barbarians.” The first-person narration is a strategy enabling the author to personalize the Mag...
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openedition-oai:revues.org:ces_283 https://doi.org/10.4000/ces.283 urn:doi:10.4000/ces.283 en https://journals.openedition.org/ces/283 2019-11-05T01:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/dsvh https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Type, Personalisation and Depersonalisation in J.M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians Commonwealth Essays and Studies SEPC (Société d’études des pays du Commonwealth) info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2534-6695 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2270-0633 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ces Grafe, Adrian Waiting for the Barbarians (1980) recounts the rebellion of the Magistrate of an Empire frontier outpost against the torture inflicted on those the Imperial administration which employs him considers as “barbarians.” The first-person narration is a strategy enabling the author to personalize the Magistrate whose name he never reveals, above all because through it we are allowed to witness the workings of conscience. The novel is a drama of the opposition between justice and law, and of what happens when men who are supposed to uphold the law in fact neglect justice and abuse their power, themselves becoming worse than “barbarians.” Within this complex moral and ethical framework the essay at hand proposes to explore the modalities of personhood as established by Coetzee, and its limits. |
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Waiting for the Barbarians (1980) recounts the rebellion of the Magistrate of an Empire frontier outpost against the torture inflicted on those the Imperial administration which employs him considers as “barbarians.” The first-person narration is a strategy enabling the author to personalize the Magistrate whose name he never reveals, above all because through it we are allowed to witness the workings of conscience. The novel is a drama of the opposition between justice and law, and of what happens when men who are supposed to uphold the law in fact neglect justice and abuse their power, themselves becoming worse than “barbarians.” Within this complex moral and ethical framework the essay at hand proposes to explore the modalities of personhood as established by Coetzee, and its limits. |
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