And the Crooked Shall be Made Straight
Agnon's first book-length work. Written in 1912 and told in the guise of a hassidic folktale masks the complex modern tension in the work. This is Agnon's great epic tragedy of a man faced with an impossible dilemma. Now available for the first time in English, translated by prof. Michael Kramer, fully annotated and with a critical introduction.
The New York Review of Books surveys The Toby Press S.Y. Agnon Library in “The Great Genius of Jewish Literature”
And the Crooked Shall be Made Straight
Agnon's first book-length work. Written in 1912 and told in the guise of a hassidic folktale masks the complex modern tension in the work. This is Agnon's great epic tragedy of a man faced with an impossible dilemma. Now available for the first time in English, translated by prof. Michael Kramer, fully annotated and with a critical introduction.
The New York Review of Books surveys The Toby Press S.Y. Agnon Library in “The Great Genius of Jewish Literature”
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Agnon's first book-length work. Written in 1912 and told in the guise of a hassidic folktale masks the complex modern tension in the work. This is Agnon's great epic tragedy of a man faced with an impossible dilemma. Now available for the first time in English, translated by prof. Michael Kramer, fully annotated and with a critical introduction.
The New York Review of Books surveys The Toby Press S.Y. Agnon Library in “The Great Genius of Jewish Literature”
