Civilization and Barbarism

摘要

Waiting for the barbarians is written by the South African writerJohn Maxwell Coetzee who is a linguist,literary critic,and the win-ner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003.It sets in a small fron-tier town of a nameless empire.The small frontier settlement＇s mag-istrate is the story＇s main protagonist and narrator.His rather peace-ful life is broken by some special forces