Agnon's Art of Indirection: Uncovering Latent Content in the Fiction of S.Y. Agnon

by Nitza Ben-Dov

Shmuel Yosef Agnon (1888-1970), winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1966 and the undisputed master of the Hebrew novel, still remains largely an unknown or even misunderstood figure. Agnon's innovation was to construct an intricate dialectic between Hebrew tradition and the modern predicament, thereby producing a very distinctive mode of modernist narrative. Agnon deployed a technique of rich allusiveness drawn from traditional Hebrew lore...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004098631
• ISBN13: 9789004098633
• Release Date: August 1993
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.6"