RT Article
T1 Sentient dogs, liberated rams, and talking asses: Agnon's biblical zoo : or rereading Tmol shilshom
JF AJS review
VO 28
IS 1
SP 105
OP 136
A1 Ezraḥi, Sidrah Deḳoven 1942-
LA English
PB University of Pennsylvania Press
YR 2004
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1650550847
AB The conclusion of Tmol shilshom is as satisfying as the climax of a Wagnerian opera or a Cecil B. De Mille movie. There is human sacrifice and there are claps of thunder and torrents of rain and cosmic evidence of divine wrath expended and placated. Nor does the novel's melodramatic end fail to satisfy its hyberbolic beginning: Isaac Kumer the naif, whose inflated dream of Zion carried the seeds of its own destruction, is bitten by a mad dog and sacrificed on the altar of the most primitive version of Jewish theodicy.
K1 Novels
K1 Written narratives
K1 Zionism
K1 Narrators
K1 Narrative modes
K1 Utopian fiction
K1 Perfection
K1 Riddles
DO 10.1017/S0364009404000078