The Parable and Its Lesson

by S.Y. Agnon

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804788723
• ISBN13: 9780804788724
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 8.5"