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FICTION Agnon
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Publication
New Milford, Conn. : Toby Press, 2008.
Description
This novel presents the comically entertaining tale of a young writer - a Galician Jew who has lived in Palestine, returns to Europe on the eve of World War I, and is now stranded in Berlin - who wanders from rented room to rented room in a city with a severe wartime housing shortage.
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LibraryThing member Michaenite
This is a witty and intelligent book about life in Berlin during the first World War. The protagonist is a Jewish writer and his wanderings, chance encounters, and interludes with old friends provide insights into a very special niche of a not always welcoming society.
LibraryThing member Gypsy_Boy
His last (and shortest) novel. The story operates, I suppose, on two levels. The plot revolves around a (European) writer who lived in Palestine but returns to Europe on the eve of World War I. He becomes stranded in Berlin and the book is nothing more or less than the story of his wanderings from
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rented room to rented room in a city with a severe wartime housing shortage. That’s it. One could read many things into it: a commentary on exile, on Zionism, on egoism, and so forth. It is not the first thing I’ve read by him and it will not be the last, but although it read easily and was even entertaining from time to time, I found it just a little too slight for my taste. Show Less
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ISBN
9781592642144