Quotes from bookWaiting for the Barbarians
Waiting for the Barbarians is a novel by the South African-born writer J. M. Coetzee. First published in 1980, it was chosen by Penguin for its series Great Books of the 20th Century and won both the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for fiction. American composer Philip Glass has also written an opera of the same name based on the book which premiered in September 2005 at Theater Erfurt, Germany.
“Pain is truth; all else is subject to doubt.”
J.M. Coetzee book Waiting for the Barbarians
Source: Waiting for the Barbarians
