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Not a Simple Story
Sharon M. Green
其他書名
Love and Politics in a Modern Hebrew Novel
出版Lexington Books, 2001
主題Literary Collections / GeneralLiterary Criticism / GeneralLiterary Criticism / JewishLiterary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / Love & Erotica
ISBN07391029829780739102985
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ReRiAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Not a Simple Story presents the modern Hebrew writer Shmuel Yosef Agnon in a new light--as an artist cum thinker whose novels and short stories manifest a deep understanding of the social and political crisis at the heart of modern Jewish life. Based on a close reading of Agnon's seminal novel A Simple Story, the book argues that Agnon was essentially a Jewish nationalist and secular modernist whose critical portrait of modern Jewish life seeks not to demean Jews but to hold them to a higher standard. By demonstrating all that Jewish society lacks, Agnon implicitly shows what it needs for it to thrive--a return to such lost notions as Jewish self-respect, heroism, and romantic love. Sharon Green's scholarly critique of this modern Hebrew classic offers students of Jewish studies a unique opportunity to penetrate the literary enigma Agnon has represented for almost a century.