A Guest for the Night by Agnon, S. Y.

A Guest for the Night

A Guest for the Night (first published in 1939 as Germany invaded Poland) is Agnon's depiction of...
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Author: S. Y. Agnon
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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A Guest for the Night by Agnon, S. Y.

A Guest for the Night

$44.78

A Guest for the Night

$44.78
Author: S. Y. Agnon
Format: Paperback
Language: English
A Guest for the Night (first published in 1939 as Germany invaded Poland) is Agnon's depiction of how all modern movements aside from Zionism secularism, Haskalah, socialism, communism failed to provide a viable alternative to traditional life. But, he is clear, even traditional life was untenable, because it all fell apart from within before the first furnaces were ignited in Auschwitz. Even the Guest's well-intentioned attempt to revivify and to re-engage the lost world of piety is also doomed. The Alte Heim, the old home, can no longer exist it is a place where we can only be passing guests for the night. Therefore "you can't go home again," because home no longer exists. It has to be rebuilt, but it can only be rebuilt in the Bayit Hadash, in the new home in the Land of Israel. This is Agnon's greatest theme in the novel and, in differing ways, throughout his body of writing: The idea that modern man, modern Jews, are alienated from their spiritual home.

Author: S. Y. Agnon
Publisher: Toby Press
Published: 12/01/2014
Pages: 531
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.41lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9781592643578

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