Ascension

Adolf Rudnicki

1951

He did not object to their unending walk, on and on until they reached a quiet spot. He did not complain of feeling tired. He did not insist that the blanket should be spread somewhere nearer to other people, though he always liked company and could not stand solitude. Unresisting he went into the embrace of destiny.

They sat down on the fringe of…

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Adolf Rudnicki

1912–1990

Adolf Rudnicki (originally Aron Hirszhorn) was born in Zabno, Poland, to a Hasidic family. He moved to Warsaw in the early 1930s to pursue a literary career, initially writing for Kurier Poranny. His first novels, Szczury (Rats; 1932) and Niekochana (Unloved; 1937), established him as a writer. But when he returned to Warsaw after escaping German captivity, living under false papers, and fighting in the Warsaw Uprising of 1944, he found his wartime writings reduced to a pile of ashes; it became for him a sign to adopt a new mode of writing, akin to psychological journalism. From 1972 to 1977 he lived in self-imposed exile in Paris.

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