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1 y separately published work icon After Testimony: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Holocaust Narrative for the Future Jakob Lothe (editor), Susan Rubin Suleiman (editor), James Phelan (editor), Columbus : Ohio University Press , 2012 Z1872170 2012 anthology criticism
1 y separately published work icon The Art of Brevity : Excursions in Short Fiction Theory and Analysis Per Winther (editor), Hans H. Skei (editor), Jakob Lothe (editor), Columbia : University of South Carolina Press , 2004 Z1247706 2004 anthology poetry
43 18 y separately published work icon Waiting for the Barbarians J. M. Coetzee , London : Secker and Warburg , 1980 6303247 1980 single work novel 'How do you eradicate contempt, especially when that contempt is founded on nothing more substantial than differences in table manners, variations in the structure of the eyelid? Shall I tell you what I sometimes wish? I wish that these barbarians would rise up and teach us a lesson, so that we would learn to respect them.

After twenty years of peacefully running one of the Empire’s settlements, a magistrate takes pity on an enemy barbarian who has been tortured. He enters into an awkward intimate relationship with her, and then is himself imprisoned as an enemy of the state.

Waiting for the Barbarians is a disturbing political fable about oppression, the fraught desire for reparation, and about living with a troubled conscience under an unjust regime.'

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