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| | Words Without Borders -> A Letter to Ernesto Sábato |
 | | Amidst the many homages to Ernesto Sábato—evoked as a major contemporary writer, as well as a high ethical model of freedom—that kept increasing in those years, the “Romanian” text embodied a specific fraternal vibration, which one could probably also feel in the novel The Black Envelope I was then working on. |
 | | I found myself in dialogue with the character-author and with Ernesto Sábato himself, who was summoned to respond to the numerous, dramatic, bitter questions, not only from the reader, but from the author I am. |
 | | May we find ourselves in the presence of Ernesto Sábato, as we remember the words that his admirer Witold Gombrowicz borrowed from an old wise man, Rabbi Moshe Levi: “The road of our lives is like a blade’s edge: on one side, hell; on the other, hell. |
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