" FTP, give the shared name of a poem by Constantin Cavafy and a J. M. Coetzee novel about a colonial magistrate's attempt to stop the escalating conflict between the Empire and local indigenous people.
A poem of this name asks "Why don't the worthy orators come as always to make their speeches" and "What are we waiting for, assembled in the forum" before concluding "Those people were some kind of solution." That poem inspired a novel of this name whose fourth section ends with Mandel hanging the protagonist by his wrists. In that novel, the narrator's discovery of prisoners marked by the word ENEMY being whipped causes him to openly confront Colonel Joll, a torturer who accuses the protagonist of erroneously thinking himself to be the "One Just Man." FTP, give the shared name of a poem by Constantin Cavafy and a J. M. Coetzee novel about a colonial magistrate's attempt to stop the escalating conflict between the Empire and local indigenous people.
A poem of this name asks "Why don't the worthy orators come as always to make their speeches" and "What are we waiting for, assembled in the forum" before concluding "Those people were some kind of solution."
{Waiting for the Barbarians}