Abstract:

J.M. Coetzee is one of the most important South African writers. The role of his writing is seen as an ongoing process of political and historical intervention. The author Ximena Picallo Visconti contextualizes the author and his works in the context of a political change whose foundations were the South African post apartheid and the dismantling of a dominant discourse settled for long. In South Africa, the identification processes are riddled with gaps and negotiations (often disparate) in finding and making meaning (Picallo Visconti, 2007). Coetzee's view drives the readers to a process of deconstruction and constant questioning, beating the anchored eurocentrism constructions exerted by the practice of colonialism and by the segregationist apartheid system. Therefore, this paper will inquire about the view of the author, trying to bring some logic of his work in relation to the invention of an "Other". We will work on the novel "Waiting for the Barbarians", where "Other and space" are stressed, to put the reader in a groundbreaking dilemma, where maybe we (the rule) are the ones who are outside the wall

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