Breakdown and Bereavement: A Novel,

by Joseph Hayyim Brenner and Yosef Haim Brenner

Book Overview

Breakdown and Bereavement is set in Palestine in the years before WWI, when the tragic pattern of Arab-Jewish relations was taking shape. The hero, Hefetz, is a wanderer in search of a spiritual... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801406617
• ISBN13: 9780801406614
• Release Date: January 1971
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.

Customer Reviews

An early classic of Hebrew Literature

Brenner was the most prominent literary figure of the First Aliyah. He was a man- of - letters , a critic, commentator, essayist, translator , poet and above all, novelist. The publisher of this book, Toby Press describes it as follows: "Brenner's Hefetz is a wanderer in search of a spiritual homeland. His desperate attempt to build a new life in Palestine has been taken to symbolize the entire Zionist enterprise. Far more than an absorbing period piece, Breakdown and Bereavement is the universal story of individual loneliness integral to the human condition. Brenner's writing comes alive in a fluent and sensitive rendering by Hillel Halkin, the distinguished translator of Agnon, Berdichevsky, Amos Oz and Haim Sabato.(266 Pages) Brenner may not attempt the linguistic complexity and symbolic depth of his great compeer, S.Y. Agnon but his fiction is nonetheless of great value and historical importance.