Not A Simple Story

Sharon M. Green

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0739102982 ISBN 13 : 9780739102985

Editeur : Parlux, 2005

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Sharon M. Green teaches modern Jewish literature at the University of Toronto.