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In his essay, \\u201cThe Desire to be Gisella,\\u201d Grossman ponders the root of our fear of the \\u201cother\\u201d in ourselves and in those we love, and he thinks of authorship as a mad rebellion against this fear.
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David Grossman, \\u201cThe Desire to be Gisella.\\u201d Writing in the Dark, Essays on Politics and Literature. Translated by Jessica Cohen. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.