Agnon, S. Y. - Further Reading
FURTHER READING
BIOGRAPHIES
Goldberg, Isaac. “Shmuel Yosef Agnon: Israel's Nobel Laureate.” AB Bookman's Weekly 87 (April 1 1991): 1267.
Brief overview of Agnon's life and work.
Lutske, Harvey. “S. Y. Agnon.” In History in Their Hands: A Book of Jewish Autographs, pp. 173-74. Northvale, N.J.: Jason Aronson Inc., 1996.
Brief sketch about Agnon.
CRITICISM
Aberbach, David. At the Handles of the Lock: Themes in the Fiction of S. Y. Agnon. New York: Oxford University Press, 1984, 221 p.
A study of themes in Agnon's fiction, emphasizing the blurring of distinctions among author, narrator, and character.
Almog, Shulamit. “Literary Legal Utopias—Alexander's Visit to Kasiah and Law at the End of Days.” Utopian Studies 12, no. 2 (2001): 164-173.
Comparison between an ancient legend about Alexander the Great and a short story by Agnon, indicating...
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