The Author of Himself
Marcel Reich-Ranicki
1999
The Jews in the Warsaw ghetto were tormented; they experienced terrible things. But from time to time they also experienced fine and wonderful things. They suffered. But they also loved. Except that love then was of a particular kind. A Viennese woman in a Schnitzler story says somewhere: “Come, stay with me. Who knows if we’ll still be alive…
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