Grabinski was a modern man, who believed in evolution, yet he distrusted the Darwinian model and preferred the Bergsonian instead. He continued to write, his books were neglected, and he died at the age of forty-nine, poor and little known. After graduation, he worked as a high school teacher, and achieved some critical success with a book of stories ( The Motion Demon, 1920) in his early thirties, but tuberculosis compelled him to retire at forty. In his early years at the University of Lwow, Stefan learned he suffered from tuberculosis, the Grabinski family hereditary complaint. His modernity, however, runs deeper than that, and his stories deserve to be remembered for more than locomotive imagery and furtive gropings in the dark. The Polish writer Stefan Grabinski is known for his early modernist tales of terror, tales filled with speeding trains and gritty sexuality.
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