Agnon's Story: A Psychoanalytic Biography of S. Y. Agnon

by Avner Falk

Agnon's Story is the first complete psychoanalytic biography of the Nobel-Prize-winning Hebrew writer S.Y. Agnon. It investigates the hidden links between his stories and his biography. Agnon was deeply ambivalent about the most important emotional objects of his life, in particular his "father-teacher," his ailing, depressive and symbiotic mother, whom he left when she was very ill, and about whose death he felt guilty all his life, his emotionally-fragile...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004367772
• ISBN13: 9789004367777
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 774 Pages
• Weight: 2.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.4" x 9.4"