Between Exile and Return
Author | : Anne Golomb Hoffman |
Publisher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 1991-03-21 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780791405413 |
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This innovative study of the modern Hebrew writer, S. Y. Agnon, offers new insight into his literary transformations of Jewish themes and sources. With particular attention to Kafka, Hoffman situates Agnon in the context of twentieth-century literature and examines such central issues in Agnons art as the relationship of the literary text to traditions of sacred writings, the place of the book in culture, and the relationship of writing to the body.