Alert! It’s been a while since you’ve read JM Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians , hasn’t it. Go on, own up, we’re all friends here. Well, get cracking on that, because you’ll to want to walk into the next Great Texts / Big Questions lecture at UCT Hiddingh’s campus prepared to rap on the third novel from “the best Afrikaans novelist to emerge in the last decade” – as Martin Seymour-Smith called Coetzee in 1981, when Barbarians was first published. The event serves as the coming out par
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Great Texts / Big Questions: Caroll Clarkson on Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians at UCT’s Hiddingh Hall
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