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3. Reading the Signs of History: Waiting for the Barbarians

  • David Attwell
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J.M. Coetzee
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© 1994 University of California Press, Berkeley

© 1994 University of California Press, Berkeley

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Contents IX
  3. Acknowledgments XI
  4. Introduction 1
  5. 1. Contexts: Literary, Historical, Intellectual 9
  6. 2. "The labyrinth of my history": Dusklands and In the Heart of the Country 35
  7. 3. Reading the Signs of History: Waiting for the Barbarians 70
  8. 4. Writing in "the cauldron of history": Life and Times of Michael K and Foe 88
  9. 5. Conclusion: Age of Iron 118
  10. Notes 127
  11. Works Cited 135
  12. Index 145
https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520912519-005

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Contents IX
  3. Acknowledgments XI
  4. Introduction 1
  5. 1. Contexts: Literary, Historical, Intellectual 9
  6. 2. "The labyrinth of my history": Dusklands and In the Heart of the Country 35
  7. 3. Reading the Signs of History: Waiting for the Barbarians 70
  8. 4. Writing in "the cauldron of history": Life and Times of Michael K and Foe 88
  9. 5. Conclusion: Age of Iron 118
  10. Notes 127
  11. Works Cited 135
  12. Index 145
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