Shmuel Yosef Agnon (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)
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Although it is for his more than two hundred short stories that he has gained worldwide renown, Shmuel Yosef Agnon is also a talented novelist. Three of his novels—Hakhnasat kala (1931; The Bridal Canopy, 1937), Bi-levav yamin: Sipur agadah (1935; In the Heart of the Seas: A Story of a Journey to the Land of Israel, 1947), and Oreach nata lalun (1939, 1950; A Guest for the Night, 1968)—have been published in a twelve-volume set. English translations of his other novels include T’mol shilshom (1945),...
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