Waiting for the Barbarians
A magistrate administering a quiet frontier town for an unnamed empire has his routine broken by a colonel from the capital, who arrives to interrogate captured nomads. He takes in a native girl left crippled by the questioning, and his care for her becomes indistinguishable, to the empire, from treason. Torture's grammar exposed, and complicity examined from the inside.
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- influenced by ↑ Waiting for Godot
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