Reading Agnon's In the Prime of Her Life in light of Freud's Dora.(influence of Sigmund Freud's case study of a patient called Dora on Shmuel Yosef Agnon's short fiction In the Prime of Her Life) From: The Jewish Quarterly Review | Date: January 1, 2008| Author: Halevi-Wise, Yael | COPYRIGHT 2008 University of Pennsylvania Press. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

IN MODERN HEBREW FICTION, Agnon's influential novella In the Prime of Her Life establishes a plot pattern that has been so prevalent among Hebrew novels that it can be regarded as a distinctive national paradigm. This paradigm links two dysfunctional generations through the figure of a shared lover, who is carried over from one generation to the next as a troublesome inheritance. I believe that this structure has been particularly attractive to Hebrew writers during an extended peri...