Waiting for the Barbarians 在線電子書 圖書標籤: colonialism J._M._Coetzee wilderness wish-list war south-africa sexuality othering
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He was 40, and an old man already.
評分He was 40, and an old man already.
評分He was 40, and an old man already.
評分He was 40, and an old man already.
評分He was 40, and an old man already.
庫切
1940年生於南非開普敦,荷蘭裔移民後代。成長於南非種族隔離政策逐漸形成並盛行的年代。1960年離開南非赴倫敦,從事電腦軟件設計。1965年到美國攻讀文學博士。1971年迴到南非,在開普敦大學英文係任教。2001年移居澳大利亞。現係美國芝加哥大學“社會思想委員會”成員,並在該校執教。主要作品有《等待野蠻人》(1980)、《邁剋爾・K的生活和時代》(1983)、《彼得堡的大師》(1994)、《童年》(1997)、《恥》(1999)、《青春》(2002)、《伊麗莎白・科斯特洛:八堂課》(2003)等。庫切曾獲得包括布剋奬在內的多種文學奬項,並於2003年榮膺諾貝爾文學奬。
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 with the victims and into a quixotic act of rebellion which lands him in prison, branded as an enemy of the state. 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.
《等待野蛮人》讲述的是一个寓言般的故事,没有确定的时间、地点、人物,有的是一个虚构的帝国,一段虚构的历史,大段大段都是这个故事的叙述者,一位驻扎在帝国前哨的老行政长官的内心独白,他在这个荒凉的边境打发着自己的岁月,没有什么与时俱进的念头,不过想着“在平静日...
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