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To This Day.(Brief article)(Book review)

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Published in 1952 and now translated into English for the first time, Agnon's final novel presents an eccentric tour through First World War Berlin. The narrator, a Galician-born Jew from Palestine, is stranded in Germany, passing his days in search of a place to spend the night amid a severe housing shortage. As he moves through a series of apartments, convinced that there is "a grand conspiracy of rooms" against him, the narrative introduces, drops, and ...

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