S. Y. Agnon, Author, Schmuel Yoseph Agnon, Author, Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Author Schocken Books Inc $24.95 (585p) ISBN 978-0-8052-4043-6
Agnon's massive, not-quite-finished novel about a German-Jewish scholar's adultery, set in British-occupied Jerusalem in the late 1930s, is a yeasty mix of realism and allegory. In this, his last major work, the Israeli Nobel laureate portrays...
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Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Author Schocken Books Inc $14.95 (246p) ISBN 978-0-8052-3999-7
The appearance in translation of a novel by a Nobel Laureate is cause for rejoicing, even when it sits less comfortably in English than in the original Hebrew. A story of a marriage, it takes place in Szybusz, a fictional town in the Austro-Hungarian
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Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Author, Barbara Harshav, Translator, Benjamin Harshav, Introduction by Princeton University Press $55 (688p) ISBN 978-0-691-00972-8
Israeli Nobel Prize-winner Agnon (1887-1970) is a founding father, like Theodor Herzl. While Herzl founded Zionism, Agnon (A Simple Story; Shira) forged the language of modern Hebrew literature. In this immense novel, first published in 1945 and now
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