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Waiting for the Barbarians
First edition cover
Author
J. M. Coetzee
Country
South Africa
Language
English
Genre
Novel
Publisher
Secker & Warburg
Publication date
27 October 1980
Media type
Print (Hardcover & Paperback)
Pages
156 (hardcover edition)
ISBN
0-436-10295-1 (hardcover edition)
Dewey Decimal
823 19
LC Class
PR9369.3.C58 W3 1980
Waiting for the Barbarians is a novel by the South African writer J. M. Coetzee. First published in 1980, it was chosen by Penguin for its series Great Books of the 20th Century and won both the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for fiction. American composer Philip Glass has also written an opera of the same name based on the book which premiered in September 2005 at Theater Erfurt, Germany.
Coetzee is said to have taken the title as well as to have been heavily influenced by the 1904 poem "Waiting for the Barbarians" by the Greek poet Constantine P. Cavafy.[1][2]
Coetzee's novel was as well deeply influenced by Italian writer Dino Buzzati's novel The Tartar Steppe (which too had been based on Cavafy's poem).
^Howe, Irving (April 18, 1982). "A stark political fable of South Africa". The New York Times. Retrieved 2007-12-30. Book Review Desk
^"Waiting for the Barbarians". Constantine P. Cavafy. Retrieved May 27, 2008.
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