Only YesterdayPrinceton University Press, 2002 M03 24 - 652 pages Israeli Nobel Laureate S.Y. Agnon's famous masterpiece, his novel Only Yesterday, here appears in English translation for the first time. Published in 1945, 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. Only Yesterday quickly became recognized as a monumental work of world literature, but not only for its vivid historical reconstruction of Israel's founding society. 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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Contents
INTRODUCTION The Only Yesterday of Only Yesterday | vii |
Translators Note | xxxi |
ONLY YESTERDAY | 1 |
Prologue | 3 |
BOOK ONE A Delightsome Land | 37 |
BOOK TWO Jerusalem | 193 |
BOOK THREE From One Issue to Another | 371 |
BOOK FOUR Epilogue | 483 |
Glossary | 643 |