I still see the world as a place of bitter irony and black humour, failed hopes, dashed plans. I hope to make my work sparer, to outgrow my desire to show off.
Even when she was alive, Esther Kreitman's novels, short stories and translations received far less attention than the work of her famous brothers, I. J. and Isaac Bashevis Singer.
Hinde Esther Kreitman is a forgotten literary foremother, her works largely lost, ignored and out of print.
It would be a big mistake to think that Chekhov was a natural, that he did not have to work for his effects and singular style.