Review Mark Rylance shines in otherwise plodding ‘Barbarians’

about 5 years in The Mercury

J.M. Coetzee's allegorical novel reflects on themes of power, war, torture, the evils of colonialism and the need humans have to demonize others in order to subjugate them. It's also about "otherizing" the foreigner, in order to more efficiently hate.

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