S. Y. Agnon
1888 – 1970 · Israel · Literature
Nobel Prize in Literature, 1966
Rebuilt Hebrew as a modern literary language.
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Who shaped S. Y. Agnon, and who they shaped
Inherited from1
- Franz Kafka
1883 – 1924 · Literature
Agnon's parables of displaced law and lost home work in a shared Central European register.
Passed the work to1
- Orhan Pamuk
1952 · Literature
The modern novel built from a sacred textual tradition is Agnon's bequest.
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