| Author: | Agnon, S.Y. | ISBN: | 1230001982350 |
| Publisher: | The Toby Press, LLC | Publication: | October 30, 2017 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | Agnon, S.Y. |
| ISBN: | 1230001982350 |
| Publisher: | The Toby Press, LLC |
| Publication: | October 30, 2017 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
S.Y. Agnon’s first book-length, breakthrough work, originally published in Hebrew in 1912 and now available in English for the first time in a fully annotated edition—this novella depicts an impossible moral dilemma faced by the tragic hero Menasheh Chaim, in mid-19th century Buczacz (in today’s western Ukraine). In the framework of a traditional Jewish folktale of old world Eastern European Jewry, Agnon delivers a profoundly modern piece of litertaure, which benefits from the tension between plot and genre.
S.Y. Agnon’s first book-length, breakthrough work, originally published in Hebrew in 1912 and now available in English for the first time in a fully annotated edition—this novella depicts an impossible moral dilemma faced by the tragic hero Menasheh Chaim, in mid-19th century Buczacz (in today’s western Ukraine). In the framework of a traditional Jewish folktale of old world Eastern European Jewry, Agnon delivers a profoundly modern piece of litertaure, which benefits from the tension between plot and genre.
