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A CERTAIN JEWISH peddler was traveling with his stock from town to town and village to village. One day he found himself in a wooded region far from any settlement. He saw a lone house. He...
About the Author
S(hmuel) Y(osef) Agnon, co-winner—with the poet Nelly Sachs—of this year's Nobel Prize for Literature, was born in Buczacz, Galicia, in 1888. Except for a brief period in Europe at about the time of World War I, Agnon has spent his adult life in Israel, where he first settled in 1908. His collected works now comprise twelve volumes, three of them long novels : The Bridal Canopy (which appeared in English in 1937 and is soon to be reissued by Schocken Books ); Yesteryear; and Wayfarer for a Night (also soon to be published by Schocken in translation in this country). Other works which have appeared in English include the short novel In the Heart of Seas (1947 ); Days of Awe (1948), an anthology of selections from classical Hebrew literature relating to the High Holidays (sections of this book were published in COMMENTARY, September 1948); and, most recently , Two Tales. Several of Agnon's numerous short stories made their first appearance in English in these pages (“The Orchestra” and “Another Tallit,” October 1960, and “Forever-more,” August 1961); the interested reader is also referred to Robert Alter's article, “The Genius of S. Y. Agnon,” in the August 1961 COMMENTARY. The three stories below, all appearing for the first time in English, are copyright © 1966 by Schocken Books Inc., publishers of Agnon's writings in the United States .
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