Anne Golomb Hoffman is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Fordham University, College at Lincoln Center.

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction: "Like a Man Who Is Exiled From the Palace of His Father"

2. Scribal Fictions: Franz Kafka and S. Y. Agnon

3. Dramas of Signification: Edmund Jabes, S. Y. Agnon, Franz Kafka

4. Autochthon of the Book

5. Housing the Past in A Guest for the Night

6. Inclusion and Exclusion: Three Stories

7. Inscription and Madness in Only Yesterday

8. The Wound and the Book: Gender, Writing and Culture in Shira

9. "A Sanctioned Babel": Toward a Conclusion

Notes

References

Index