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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tenants of the Past | 5/12/1967 | See Source »

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