" In a novel of this title, Warrant Officer Mandel conducts a mock hanging of the protagonist, who has sexual fantasies about a young girl who belongs to the titular group of people.
A poem of this title asks "Why this sudden restlessness, this confusion?" before noting "How serious people's faces have become." That poem begins by asking "What are we waiting for, assembled in the forum?" and ends by calling the titular people "a kind of solution." In a novel of this title, Warrant Officer Mandel conducts a mock hanging of the protagonist, who has sexual fantasies about a young girl who belongs to the titular group of people. For 10 points, name this title shared by a Constantine Cavafy poem and a J.M. Coetzee novel in which the magistrate of a frontier town is imprisoned by Colonel Joll.
A poem of this title asks "Why this sudden restlessness, this confusion?" before noting "How serious people's faces have become."
Waiting for the {Barbarians}