Article: Light in Dark Times

David Biale
Forward
12-01-1995
Light in Dark Times.

For Ernst Pawel, writing biography was a highly personal matter. Like Kafka, whose life he captured in "The Nightmare of Reason," Pawel was a writer and intellectual who for years worked for an insurance company. Like Herzl, about whom Pawel wrote compellingly in "The Labyrinth of Exile," he was a committed Zionist. And like Heinrich Heine, whose stoical final years he chronicled in "The Poet Dying," Pawel remained brave and productive in the face of the cancer that took his life last year. His biography of Heine, which he wrote while he was dying, has been published posthumously, along with a memoir, "A Life in Dark Times," that his ...

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