Only Yesterday: A NovelPrinceton University Press, 2019 M02 26 - 696 pages 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? |
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... girl's room, and suddenly he finds himself sitting in Sonya's room.” To Sonya, Isaac is just one of a series of dalliances, and she finds it easy to leave him in the end. But he is hit much harder, especially by his obsessive guilt ...
... (girls often studied French, too). Agnon was born on 8/8/1887, yet he claimed he was born on the 8/8/1888 (lucky number) which fell on Tish'a Be-Av, the ninth of Av in the year 5,648 since the creation according to the Hebrew calendar ...
... girls are strolling between the marketplace and the post office, and students are escorting them, and maybe the girls are thinking about Isaac, because he went to the Land of Israel. Never in his life had Isaac paid any heed to girls ...
... girl. Many more things Isaac pondered about the people of his own circle in his hometown. Some of them caught the ... girls, and not because he was fond of them, but because of his sisters, who see their girlfriends strolling in a city ...
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