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LOOK UP AND LIVE (CBS, 10:30-11 a.m.). Adapted from S. Y. Agnon's short story Tehila, The Greatest Poet in Talpiot is a TV play about a character who remembers the past in an Israeli village...
...most readers knew, S. Y. Agnon and Nelly Sachs might have been creatures of the Nobel committee's imagination. Placing Agnon was easier: he turned out to be Israel's top novelist. But Nelly Sachs was a poser: A Jewish woman poet of 75 who wrote in German and lived (as she still does) in Sweden. Had the academy simply decided that it was the turn of Jewish writers? Did it already have in the wings an unsung Arab for the next time around...
Shmuel Y. Agnon, D.LET., Israeli author, Nobel prizewinner...
...last Gemulah sings the song of Grofith, a mythical bird who dies with the last note. She dies too, along with her mysterious auditor. It is Agnon's anguished challenge to his own quest: the past is alien, and unrecoverable, and he who seeks it is destined to live in the limbo between the sunset and the dawn...
...Which Agnon shared with Jewish Poet Nelly Sachs, who lives in Sweden...