by J. M. Coetzee · DEBOLSILLO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788497593359
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«Esperando a los bárbaros» is the novel by J. M. Coetzee, published by Debolsillo in paperback (224 pages, in Spanish).
In a border town of an Empire, the arrival of police and soldiers unleashes a persecution of supposed barbarians: arrests, torture, and murders. The old magistrate tries to oppose common sense to the abuse of power and ends up in prison while the town is ruined. A parable with South African echoes about racism and authoritarian arrogance.
The translation is by Luis Martínez Victorio and Concepción Manella Jiménez; the edition belongs to the Contemporánea collection.
For readers of contemporary fiction and fiction with a political-social background; J. M. Coetzee won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
John Maxwell Coetzee AC FRSL OMG is a South African and Australian novelist, essayist, linguist, and translator. The recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature, Coetzee is one of the most critically acclaimed and decorated authors in the English language. He has won the Booker Prize (twice), the CNA Literary Award (thrice), the Jerusalem Prize, the Prix Femina étranger, and The Irish Times International Fiction Prize, and holds a number of other awards and honorary doctorates.
