Reflective blog: Expert lecture on "Waiting for the Barbarians" by R.B.Zala 'The more you know, the more your critical mind may suffer' The reading of any book is not at all easy task but it doesn't mean that one can quite reading or read it only to get entertain. Talking about Waiting for the Barbarians, it is a worth reading novel written by twice Booker Prize winner novelist,linguistic and critic J.M.Coetzee. "Pain is truth; all else is subject to doubt" - J.M.Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians Waiting for Barbarians is not that much fantastic novel which deals with magical realism and so on but it can be considered as fable of post-colonial literature as well as it can also be viewed as within the context of the development of literary allegory. It is the story of people who are considered as 'Other' by civilized people. Once in every generation, without fail, there is an episode of hysteria about the bar