![]() ![]() ![]() With annotations and a foreword by Jeffrey Saks. In this new collection of political satires by Nobel laureate S.Y. In Shai Agnon: Mekarim uTe'udot, edited by Gershon Shaked and Refael Weiser. “Introduction,” translated by Sara Daniel, in The Orange Peel and Other Satires. Agnon we witness the satirist sharpening his pen like a carving knife, revealing his opinions from behind the mask of his art. In this introduction, we see the role Agnon envisioned for himself as someone standing at the crossroads – a traditional figure between eastern European traditional Orthodoxy and modern Israeli life. In this new collection of political satires by Nobel laureate S.Y. When you attempt to approach it as a meta-physical entity it slips back into physicality if one considers it in physical terms it suddenly reverts into meta-physicality.” ![]() ![]() “… The State is a metaphysical concept rendered into something physical which feigns meta-physicality. Today, host Marcela Sulak reads from Agnon’s introduction to the “Book of the State,” one of his little-known political satires. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Agnon being awarded the prize, Toby Press has been releasing Agnon’s work in English translation. Shai Agnon is the only Hebrew-language writer to have received the Nobel Prize in Literature. ![]()
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