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Coetzee Waiting For The Barbarians Index

animals/humans
18; 19; 20; 32; 34; 39; 42; 45; 46; (53); 55; 56; 60; 67; 72; 75?;
80; 81; 81 (not human); 84; (87); 89; 92; 107;
108; 115; 117; 124; 125; 128; 130
body
30 31; 33; 35; 37; 41; 42; 43; 45; 46; 47; 55; 56; 60; 64; 64; 77; 79;
87; 93; 94; 96; 97; 105; 107; 111; 134;
134 135 (marked)
feet
28 29; (53); 55; 74; 111; (130)
genitals
34; 45
whole/incomplete
115
blindness
1; 3; 25 26; 29; 30; 43; (59); 71; 107; 109; 120; (144)
black/white(colour)
2; 9 10; 13; 16; 25; 26; 46; 48; 66; 79; 105;
gold
13; 40; 55; 109;
blank motif
31; 34; 37; 42; 44; 47; 64; 69; 86; 87; (93); 121; 143
civilisation
12; 17; 24; 38; 79
dreams
(2); 8; 9 10; 10; 13; 23; 37; 48; 52 53; 79; 86 87; 93; 94
(cf. 10); 96; 109 110; (117); 120?; 122; 128; 133;
136; 148 - 156
erotic
22; (27); 28; 29 30; 33 34; 40; 42; 43 (metaphor); 44 45; 45 (cf.
56) ; 46; 55; 63; 66; 150 151
freedom
78; 85; 89; 101; 113; 114; 125
ghosts
16; 96; 80; 81; 96; 101; 113; 142; 188, 125, 118 (body&soul)
history
16; 17; 19; 24; 64; 72 (past/future);95; 114; 133; 143; 154; see
ruins 14 15
language
3; (4); 16; 17&18 (incommunicado); 18; 22; 27; 35 (non-lit.);
40; 63; 72; 124; 129; see scripts 15 - 16
meaning
41; 81
morality
43; 45; 83; 87; 138 - 139
mystery
4; 6; 14 15, 148 (ruins); 15 16, 110 111; 112 (script, cf.
72); 31; 32
nudity, descriptive
10; 13; 30 31; 33; 35; 40; 48; 55; 81; 94; 97; 103; 105; 116; 117;
120; 152
oblivion
21; 31; 41; 47; 63; 86; see also 54
pain
3; 5; 7; 10; (13); 23; 24; 32; 74; 79; 81; 85; 92; 93; 96; 97; 105; 106;
107; 108; 109; 115; 117; 127; 128
torture
4 5; 27, 43 (comparison); 103; 105; 106; 116 121
purification
6; 12; 76; 126; cf. 146 (innocence)
stoicism (philosophy)
54
truth
3; 5; 7; 9; 11; 22; 41; 47; 71; 80; 96; 127; 136; 154
lies
46; 55; 98; 99; 111 112; 135; 136; 146
title
154
Characters: The Magistrate/Narrator, Colonel Joll, unnamed barbarian woman, The
Star (e.g. 46), Mandel, Mai (e.g. 150)

a is a
16; 22; 32; 110 ........ significant?l
lexical
34;
metaphor/simile? 7; 9; 11; 21; 33; 45; 47; 90;
metatext?
154
parallelism 34
compare other texts
The Life and Times of Michael K
Disgrace
Heart of Darkness

see oblivion; 24 (self-burial); 95

see erotic; 95; 96; 97; 108; 113
24;