Twenty One Stories

• Book ID: 108663377
• Year: 1970
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 612 KB
• Category: Standards

✦ Synopsis

A collection of Agnon's short fictions and a good representation of his subtle form of writing. He is heavily influenced by fable and fairy tales, and many of the stories have the dream-like, simple quality of a children's stories ("The Lady and the Peddler", "First Kiss"). A number of these stories are considered masterpieces ("Agunot", "The Doctor's Divorce"). Although deeply indebted to the Jewish Diaspora experience, with its traditions and religious context, Agnon was very much a modernist. All the stories in this collection embody a kind of disjointedness which says less about the skills of the writer and more about the world he wrote about: this is a world of discontinuities where there are often strange shifts in daily life and the end comes quite abruptly.

Content:

The Tale of the Scribe
Fable of the Goat
Agunot
The Kerchief
To Father's House
To the Doctor
The Document
Friendship
A Whole Loaf
From Lodging to Lodging
Metamorphosis
The Doctor's Divorce
The Face and the Image
The Lady and the Pedlar
On the Road
The Orchestra
The Letter
Fernheim
At the Outset of the Dav
The Night
First Kiss

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