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...BRIDAL CANOPY by S. Y. Agnon. 389 pages. Schocken Books...
...HEART OF THE SEAS by S. Y. Agnon. 128 pages. Schocken Books...
...TALES by S. Y. Agnon. 237 pages. Schocken Books...
...QUIET. AGNON is WRITING, reads a street sign in Talpioth, a fir-shaded suburb of Jerusalem. It honors the solitude of Israel's most beloved and most retiring author, Shmuel Yosef Agnon, 78, who until recently was almost unknown in the West. Lately, a steady tide of visitors has disobeyed the sign and trespassed on the austere hospitality of his house, which offers only a few folding chairs to guests. Israel counts Agnon a cultural hero, studies his work in its schools, and has given him a hero's place since he returned from Stockholm last December with...
...West has a fresh chance to examine this distant literary figure. Some of his books were translated into English in the 1930s, but they attracted little notice. Now his publisher has placed three Agnon titles in U.S. bookstores, where they are selling with a briskness that owes much to simple curiosity...