The Bible's Age and Death.
Gustaw Herling-Grudziński Having somewhat more time to read, since I retired, I checked out a few Polish books from the local library. Just by coincidence I found a book by Gustaw Herling-Grudziński , entitled " Wiek biblijny i śmierć. Czekając na czarny obłok. " I would translate it roughly as "The Bible's age and death. Waiting for the black cloud. " Herling-Grudziński is best known for his book A World Apart ( Inny Swiat ), describing his experiences in the Soviet Gulag system. It was first published in 1951, about 10 years earlier than Alexander Solzhenitsyn 's first book on this subject. " The Bible's age and death " is a book, or rather a sketch for the book, written when Herling-Grudzinski was already in his 80s. It tells the story of Italian Matusalem - Bartolomeo Spada - who was believed to achieve the age of over 130. Because of his physical strength and sexual prowess (he possibly suffered from priapism ), Spada had become a...