Written in pieces over the last fifteen years of his life and
published posthumously, S. Y. Agnon's A City in Its Fullness is an
ambitious, historically rich sequence of stories memorializing
Buczacz, the city of his birth. This town in present-day Ukraine
was once home to a vibrant Jewish population that was destroyed
twice over—in the First World War and again in the Holocaust.
Agnon's epic story cycle, however, focuses not on the particulars
of destruction, but instead reimagines the daily lives of Buczacz's
Jewish citizens, vividly preserving the vanished world of early
modern Jewry. Ancestral Tales shows how this collection marks a
critical juncture within the Agnon canon. Through close readings of
the stories against a shifting historical backdrop, Alan Mintz
presents a multilayered history of the town, along with insight
into Agnon's fictional transformations. Mintz relates these
narrative strategies to catastrophe literature from earlier periods
of Jewish history, showing how Agnon's Buczacz is a literary
achievement at once innovative in its form of remembrance and
deeply rooted in Jewish tradition.
General
| Imprint: |
Stanford University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture |
| Release date: |
June 2017 |
| First published: |
2017 |
| Authors: |
Alan Mintz
|
| Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
| Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth
|
| Pages: |
440 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-5036-0116-1 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
General
|
| LSN: |
1-5036-0116-1 |
| Barcode: |
9781503601161 |
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