02237nam 22005173u 450 991082513450332120240402072031.00-8047-8925-8(CKB)2670000000545077(EBL)1642554(MiAaPQ)EBC1642554(EXLCZ)99267000000054507720140331d2014|||| u|| |engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Parable and Its Lesson[electronic resource] A Novella1st ed.Palo Alto Stanford University Press20141 online resource (177 p.)Stanford Studies in Jewish History and CDescription based upon print version of record.0-8047-8871-5 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; GlossaryS.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 massaStanford Studies in Jewish History and CJews -- Ukraine -- Buchach -- FictionJewsLiteratureJews -- Ukraine -- Buchach -- Fiction.Jews.Literature.892.43892.43/5892.435Agnon S1703897Diamond James1703898AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910825134503321The Parable and Its Lesson4089476UNINA