The paper is about the novel ″waiting for the Barbarians by Coetzee″. Its goal is to answer the question ″At one point in the narrative, the Magistrate refers to the “infection of knowledge.” How has the Magistrate been infected?
What kind of knowledge has he been infected with? How does this infection work its way through his body and mind? You may also want to consider the knowledge that the Magistrate is infected with through his confinement, dehumanization, and torture, and whether it is the same as the knowledge with which he was infected as a (reluctant) witness of torture.″
