Waiting for the Barbarians and Diary of a Bad Year

In J. M. Coetzee's "Waiting for Barbarians", the author adopts an allegorical approach as an evil moral and cultural reaction to colonialism and public torture. Some people think that this novel expresses a specific criticism of South Africa's political structure, but Cush 's intention is wider and criticism of colonialism as well as American story since 911. In his recent novel "Diary of the Bad Year", the Couch further analyzed his analysis of torture and how Americans should deal with torture and shame in the "war with terror" I explored. Two book exceptions were replaced

One of the central figures of J. M. Coetzee's "Waiting for Barbarians" is a savage girl. The magistrate, after being interrogated by an unforgiving colonel and undergoing torture, knew that the girl was subjective and almost blind, and took her. Relationship between magistrates and girls is centered around exploring the meaning of girls, asking her about torture, trying to understand her through the surface of the body, and then releasing her the key to free her meaning I will try to use it. After all, the treatment of a barbarian girl by a sheriff reflects the treatment to Colonel Jill, and all of them use her as a tool to get the knowledge of the search.

On the experience of the local judge of colonial border surrounded by incredible enemies, colonial administrators were attacked indefinitely, fighting counterattacks, waiting for the barbarians to explain in detail It was revenged and revenged. The hero is not necessarily an active participant in this war He recalls an easy day to satisfy his position His obligation is to have sex mainly with young women. Some barbarians were rounded up by settlers, tortured to gain information about their society, plans to attack the border fortress, one of whom was tortured until blindness. Then local authorities started an unusual relationship with her. They do not get in touch and they seem to be unable to understand. Even if they finished the problem, the judge did not settle his feelings about her if he actually felt it to her.