SOURCE: "Agnon's Mediterranean Fable," in Defenses of the Imagination: Jewish Writers and Modern Historical Crisis, The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1977, pp. 187-98.
In the following excerpt, Alter calls attention to Agnon's intermingling of ancient Hebrew and Greek worlds in Betrothed, a strategy that enhances the story's fabulous quality, according to the critic
This is a free excerpt of 53 words. There are 4,310 words (approx.
14 pages at 300 words per page) in the full critical essay.
Read the rest of this Criticism with our S. Y. Agnon: Critical Essay by Robert Alter Access Pass.
