Beautifully translated by Peter Cole, The Shunra and the Schmetterling is fiction for lovers of poetry and poetry for lovers of fiction--a small marvel of a book, and one of the author's finest to date.
Yoel Hoffmann—“Israel’s celebrated avant-garde genius” (The Forward)—supplies the magic missing link between the infinitesimal and the infinite Part novel and part memoir, Yoel Hoffmann’s Moods is flooded with feelings, evoked ...
Yoel Hoffmann. He suddenly sees a thousand ships an- chored offshore , the large iron links of the anchors ' chains emerging from a round opening in the bow . 233 Love me , Batya says , and as on Simhat Torah Yehoahim is filled with ...
Yoel Hoffmann. " SOMETIMES , MR . STEIN , " MRS . NEUWIRTH says , " a man has to give up his dreams and be satis- fied with what life has to offer . " Mrs. Neuwirth was widowed while still in Vienna but in his mind's eye Bernhard sees ...
Yoel Hoffmann. from the grocery store or Shelomoh Ervin , who lays out solitaire cards on the table ) goes up in flames because the center of town is on fire as though Van Gogh had painted the houses and trees . The source of energy is ...
Yoel Hoffmann, Peter Cole. d . Mr. Tsehayek , who had a grocery store , wandered like the cranes from Baghdad to the Land of Israel . .. His golden monocle and gabardine pants , which hindered the movement of the wings , along with the ...
Yoel Hoffmann. And now the time has come to say a few words about this beloved land , which we're always leaving and to which we always return . The eyes don't see everything , but there is a port in the mountain town of Safed and large ...
Yoel Hoffmann. story is too strong . Even more so than the gravitational fields of physical bodies . The readers can invite Zivit and Ohad ( together or separately ) for a cup of coffee . Then can ask them how they are and Zivit or Ohad ...