Two sages who lived in our city. Favorites. Agnon Sh.

Israeli writer Shmuel Josef Agnon (1888-1970)-Nobel Laureate in 1966. The novels included in this book are first published in Russian and cover the whole creative path of the writer.

Agnon’s prose is a kind of pilimps, on which the lines of centuries -old Jewish writing come under the text of a modern existential issues of the author.. Agnon avoids uniqueness in the interpretation of plots and images, often depriving the reader of the rational support in the garden of the branching paths of the past and the present. A detailed historical and cultural commentary explains the details of Jewish life and deciphens references to religious sources, enriching the reader's perception with additional overtones.