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For Cavafy's poem "Waiting for the Barbarians" and comparative discussion with J.M. Coetzee's novel Waiting for the Barbarians (1980) see Chapter 5: "Barbarism in Repetition: Literature's Waiting for the Barbarians" (pp. 155-197) and for the restaging of Cavafy's poem in visual art see Chapter 6: "Another 'Kind of Solution'? Art's Waiting for the Barbarians" (pp. 199-233).