The Centrifugal Novel: S. Y. Agnon's Poetics of Composition

S. Y. Agnon is modern Hebrew literature's preeminent novelist. His unique ability to juxtapose the traditional Jewish worldview with modern, secular life earned him the Nobel Prize for literature, as well as every literary prize Israel could bestow. The Centrifugal Novel provides the first full-length analysis of Agnon's fiction from the perspective of manuscript history and how the archive itself represents an independent literary creation.