"S.Y. Agnon and Gustave Flaubert: Hebraizing a French Master"
November 6, 2022
Robert Alter, Emeritus Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley, spoke about the influence of Gustav Flaubert on the writing style of S.Y. Agnon. Focusing on three examples, Alter showed that the interplay between narration and character development in Agnon’s A Simple Story betray a distinctly Flaubertian quality particularly around the use of free indirect discourse.