A Simple Story
by Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Hillel Halkin
246 pages· 1985· ISBN 9780815606185
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A small town in southern Poland is the scene of this bittersweet romance set at the turn of the century. Celebrated Israeli novelist, S. Y. Agnon draws on techniques perfected by Gustave Flaubert and Thomas Mann to contrast the hero's romantic longings with the interests in bourgeois society.
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