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Hebrew Samuel Agnon’s speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1966

English Samuel Agnon’s speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1966 (Translation) Our sages of blessed memory have said that we must not enjoy any pleasure in this world without reciting a blessing. If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them…

Works in Russian Aleshkino serdtse. – Moskva : Gos. izd-vo, 1925 Protiv chernogo znameni. – Moskva : Gos. izd-vo, 1925 Nakhalenok. – Moskva : Gos. izd-vo, 1925 Krasnogvardeitsy. – Moskva : Gos. izd-vo, 1925 Dvukhmuzhniaia. – Moskva : Gos. izd-vo, 1925 Donskie rasskazy. – Moskva : Novaia Moskva, 1926 Lazorevaia step’. – Moskva : Novaia…

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Works in French L’imagination. – Paris : Alcan, 1936 La nausée. – Paris : Gallimard, 1938 Esquisse d’une théorie des emotions. – Paris : Hermann, 1939 Le mur. – Paris : Gallimard, 1939 L’imaginaire : psychologie phénoménologique de l’imagination. – Paris : Gallimard, 1940 L’etre et le néant : Essai d’ontologie phénoménologique. – Paris :…

French Giorgos Seferis’ speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1963 Sire, Madame, Altesses Royales, Mesdames, Messieurs. En ce moment je sens que je suis une contradiction. a en effet décidé que mon effort dans une langue fameuse à travers bien des siècles, mais peu répandue dans sa forme…

English Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1963 Some Notes on Modern Greek Tradition A poet who is especially dear to me, the Irishman , Nobel laureate of 1923, on his return from Stockholm wrote an account of his trip entitled «The Bounty of Sweden». I was reminded of it when the honoured me so greatly by…

English Giorgos Seferis’ speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1963 (Translation) I feel at this moment that I am a living contradiction. The has decided that my efforts in a language famous through the centuries but not widespread in its present form are worthy of this high distinction.…