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| #649451 in Books | 2015-01-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.40 x1.30 x5.50l,.0 | File type: PDF | 531 pages||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| "A Guest for the Night"|By Patricia A Allbright|This is a book that at first is hard to read. So to understand it you have to read slowly and just a chapter a day, maybe. The main character loves the 'Land of Israel' that is what he says, never jus Israel. He gives us Jewish wisdom in a subtle way. In a way that you will remember it at odd times. He loses his overcoat and||"After sixty five years since its original publication in Hebrew and a Holocaust, A Guest for the Night has not lost its poignancy. Written from the perspective of the returning native son who is painfully aware that you cannot go home again, the novel
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 worl...
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