It’s Not Easy to Start Living

Bernardo Verbitsky

1941

XLVI

He was learning about the Jewish festivals from Leo. The arrival of the new year was suddenly upon him, and that’s when he decided that fasting on Yom Kippur would be a fine adventure. The thought of spending a whole day without eating or drinking became in his imagination like entering a dark place with threats lurking in sinuous alleyways…

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Bernardo Verbitsky

1907–1979

Born in Buenos Aires into a family that had emigrated from Russia, Bernardo Verbitsky was raised in an impoverished home. Nonetheless, he studied to be a physician, a field that he later abandoned to become a journalist, novelist, and film writer. His socially conscious writings candidly explore the underside of urban living in Argentina. His own background appears in his autobiographical novel, Hermana y sombra (Sister and Shadow).

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