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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787871703321

Autore

Agnon S

Titolo

The Parable and Its Lesson [[electronic resource] ] : A Novella

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Palo Alto, : Stanford University Press, 2014

ISBN

0-8047-8925-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (177 p.)

Collana

Stanford Studies in Jewish History and C

Altri autori (Persone)

DiamondJames

Disciplina

892.43

892.43/5

892.435

Soggetti

Jews -- Ukraine -- Buchach -- Fiction

Jews

Literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction / Alan Mintz; The Parable and Its Lesson / S. Y. Agnon, Translated and Annotated by James S. Diamond; Essay on The Parable and Its Lesson [Hamashal vehanimshal] / Alan Mintz; Glossary

Sommario/riassunto

S.Y. Agnon was the greatest Hebrew writer of the twentieth century, and the only Hebrew writer to receive the Nobel Prize for literature. He devoted the last years of his life to writing a massive cycle of stories about Buczacz, the Galician town (now in Ukraine) in which he grew up. Yet when these stories were collected and published three years after Agnon's death, few took notice. Years passed before the brilliance and audacity of Agnon's late project could be appreciated.  The Parable and Its Lesson is one of the major stories from this work. Set shortly after the massa