“Yes, I lay in my grave. But if you lie in a grave long enough, you get accustomed to it and you don't want to part from it. He had given me a pill of cyanide, He and his wife and their son also carried such pills. We all lived with death, and I want you to know that one can fall in love with death. Whoever has loved death cannot love anything else any more. When the liberation came and they told me to leave, I didn't want to go. I clung to the threshold like an ox being dragged to the slaughter. ("Hanka")”
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American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now
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Isaac Bashevis Singer
Isaac Bashevis Singer, born on November 21, 1902 in Poland and died on July 24, 1991, was an outstanding Jewish American author. His works are renowned for their vivid portrayal of the lives and experiences of Eastern European Jews, and he has won widespread acclaim for his unique narrative style and profound humanistic concerns. more
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