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Lot #
18632
Auction End Date
8/21/2007 10:52:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
Title Information
Title (English)
Givat ha-Hol
Title (Hebrew)
גבעת החול
Author
[First Ed.] S. Y. Agnon
City
Berlin
Publisher
Juedischer Verlag
Publication Date
1919
Collection Information
Independent Item
This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
Description Information
Physical
Description
First edition. 77, [2] pp. plus wrappers, 152:110 mm., usual age staining, wide margins. A very good copy as issued, split.
Detailed
Description
A story (in Hebrew) by the famous writer, S.Y. Agnon. Recipient of the 1966 Nobel Prize for Literature, Shmuel Yosef Agnon was born in Galicia in 1888. He immigrated to Jaffa in 1908, but spent 1913 through 1924 in Germany. In 1924 he returned to Jerusalem, where he lived until his death in 1970. A prolific novelist and short-story writer from an early age, Agnon received numerous literary awards, including the Israel Prize on two occasions. Called "a man of unquestionable genius" and "one of the great storytellers of our time," S.Y. Agnon is among the most effusively praised and widely translated Hebrew authors. His unique style and language have influenced the writing of subsequent generations of Hebrew authors. Much of his writing attempts to recapture the lives and traditions of a former time, but his stories are never a simple act of preservation. Agnon's tales deal with the most important psychological and philosophical problems of his generation. "Via realistic and surrealistic modes," writes the New York Times, "Agnon has transmuted in his many words the tensions inherent in modern man's loss of innocence, and his spiritual turmoil when removed from home, homeland and faith." An observant Jew throughout most of his life, he was able to capture "the hopelessness and spiritual desolation" of a world standing on the threshold of a new age. Extolled for his "peculiar tenderness and beauty," for his "comic mastery" and for the "richness and depth" of his writing, it is S.Y. Agnon's contribution to the renewal of the language that has been seminal for all subsequent Hebrew writing.
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חברו ש"י עגנון...
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Description
CD-EPI 0155430
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:
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Location
Germany:
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Subject
Other:
Literature
Characteristic
First Editions:
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Language:
Hebrew
Manuscript Type
Kind of Judaica
