The course is designed to introduce the advanced student of Modern Hebrew to modern prose written primarily in what today is this state of Israel. To this end we spent two weeks looking at the motifs and styles available in contemporary children's literature with an eye to the use of biblical allusions. This then serves as background to a study of selections of short stories by the Nobel laureate Agnon. The conclusion of the course is an analysis of one of Agnon's major novels. Having mastered primary reading skills in prose literature, students will be introduced to postmodern literary analysis, misprision, anxiety of influence, and temporal cultural models. The course will be conducted in Hebrew and students are strongly urged to write their essays in Hebrew.