The lingering notion of expectancy, craving for self-atonement, ever-present exoticism and a foggy, yet limpid discord of alien libido baffled with covet for power: a dark yet elucidating sphere that depicts the ideology concealed in the novel, Waiting for the Barbarians, written by J.M. Coetzee....
A famous philosopher once said, 'Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it” (Santayana). Overtime, mankind has seen dramatic changes to the world and society in which they live in. Although we experience these changes the past seems to always find a...
This essay examines how author J.M. Coetzee destabilises the concept of “otherness” in his novel, Waiting for the Barbarians. The examination is done through the lense of Emmmanual Levinas and Martin Heidegger’s philosophical ideas about otherness with particular focus on an extract (pages 60-61) from...
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