Only Yesterday A Novel
epub | 1.47 MB | English | Author :S. Y. Agnon | 0691181004 | 2019 | Princeton University Press


Book Description :

When Israeli Nobel Laureate S. Y. Agnon published the novel Only Yesterday in 1945 it quickly became recognized as a major work of world literature not only for its vivid historical reconstruction of Israel's founding society. The book tells a seemingly simple tale about a man who immigrates to Palestine with the Second Aliya-the several hundred idealists who returned between 1904 and 1914 to work the Hebrew soil as in Biblical times and revive Hebrew culture. This epic novel also engages the reader in a fascinating network of meanings contradictions and paradoxes all leading to the question what if anything controls human existence?
Seduced by Zionist slogans young Isaac Kumer imagines the Land of Israel filled with the financial social and erotic opportunities that were denied him the son of an impoverished shopkeeper in Poland. Once there he cannot find the agricultural work he anticipated. Instead Isaac happens upon house-painting jobs as he...

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