From Life and Fate: “My faith has been tempered in Hell. My faith has emerged from the flames of the crematoria, from the concrete gas chamber. I have seen that it is not man who is impotent in the struggle against evil, but the power of evil that
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A Novelist's Mind: Lilian Nattel Online: Bravery: the Writer
I want to tell you about a writer who looked old in his mid-30s. He walked with a cane. He was overweight, lethargic, pasty-faced and depressed. It was no wonder. He was a writer trying to write vividly, truthfully and with compassion under a totalitarian regime. He believed in the
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