The parable and its lesson : a novella / S.Y. Agnon ; translated and annotated by James S. Diamond ; with an introduction and critical essay by Alan Mintz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Agnon, Shmuel Yosef, 1887-1970.

Contributor:

Diamond, James S.

Mintz, Alan L.

Series:

Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture.

Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture

Standardized Title:

Mashal ṿeha-nimshal. English

Language:

English

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Jews--Ukraine--Buchach--Fiction.

Jews.

Literature.

Local Subjects:

Jews.

Literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (177 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Palo Alto : Stanford University Press, 2014.

Summary:

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 project could be appreciated. The Parable and Its Lesson is one of the major stories from this work.

Contents:

Contents; Introduction / Alan Mintz; The Parable and Its Lesson / S. Y. Agnon, Translated and Annotated by James S. Diamond; Essay on The Parable and Its Lesson [Hamashal vehanimshal] / Alan Mintz; Glossary

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9780804789257

0804789258