Agnon's Story is the first complete psychoanalytic biography of the Nobel-Prize-winning Hebrew writer S.Y. Agnon. It investigates the hidden links between his stories and his biography. Agnon was deeply ambivalent about the most important emotional objects of his life, in particular his "father-teac[...]
This monograph is a revised and expanded version of an article entitled, 'Between Historical Reality and Literary Fantasy -- Polish-Jewish Relations in the writings of S Y Agnon' which was first published in Hebrew in Gal-Ed XI (1989), pp109-160. The text was translated by Ora Wiskind. For ease of r[...]