Questioning Edmond Jabès

Author : Edmond Jabès
Publisher : Wesleyan
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015018625817

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The Book of Questions by Edmond Jabès Pdf

The Book of Questions, of which volumes IV, V, VI are together published here, is a meditative narrative of Jewish Experience, and, more generally, man's relation to the world. In these volumes the word is personified in the woman Yael, silence in her still-born child Elya. Even though words imply ambiguity and lies, they are the home of the exile. A book becomes the Book, fragments of the law that are in some way unified, where past and present, the visionary, and the common place, encounter each other. For Jabes every word is a question in the book of being. Man defines himself in the world against all that threatens his existence- death, the infinite, silence, that is, God, his primal opponent. How can one speak what cannot be spoken?

Author : Rosmarie Waldrop
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780819565808

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Lavish Absence by Rosmarie Waldrop Pdf

An intimate portrait of one of France’s most important writers by his translator.

Author : Edmond Jabès
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1993-06-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0226388891

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The Book of Margins by Edmond Jabès Pdf

The death of Edmond Jabès in January 1991 silenced one of the most compelling voices of the postmodern, post-Holocaust era. Jabès's importance as a thinker, philosopher, and Jewish theologian cannot be overestimated, and his enigmatic style—combining aphorism, fictional dialogue, prose meditation, poetry, and other forms—holds special appeal for postmodern sensibilities. In The Book of Margins, his most critical as well as most accessible book, Jabès is again concerned with the questions that inform all of his work: the nature of writing, of silence, of God and the Book. Jabès considers the work of several of his contemporaries, including Georges Bataille, Maurice Blanchot, Roger Caillois, Paul Celan, Jacques Derrida, Michel Leiris, Emmanuel Lévinas, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and his translator, Rosmarie Waldrop. This book will be important reading for students of Jewish literature, French literature, and literature of the modern and postmodern ages. Born in Cairo in 1912, Edmond Jabès lived in France from 1956 until his death in 1991. His extensively translated and widely honored works include The Book of Questions and The Book of Shares. Both of these were translated into English by Rosmarie Waldrop, who is also a poet. Religion and Postmodernism series

Author : Tsivia Wygoda Frank
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110640786

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Edmond Jabès and the Archaeology of the Book by Tsivia Wygoda Frank Pdf

This book offers a fresh reflection on The Book of Questions by the French-Egyptian Jewish writer Edmond Jabès and its readings, and proposes to re-contextualize Jabès' enigmatic prose through the lens of the author’s manuscripts. Addressed are the main prisms through which Jabès’ oeuvre has been read since its publication in 1963: Jewishness, the Shoah, intertextuality with Midrash and Kabbalah, hermeticism and interpretation. It analyzes their shapes and their becoming in the work-in-progress, reveals the dynamics and the contexts of their evolution from the pre-texts to the text and beyond, and reflects on the relationship between creation, interpretation, and writing as a process. It seeks to rethink our reading of The Book of Questions and the poetics and hermeneutics of enigmatic writing.

Author : Warren F. Motte
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0783788975

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Questioning Edmond Jabes by Warren F. Motte Pdf

Author : Edmond Jabès,Rosmarie Waldrop
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0804726841

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The Little Book of Unsuspected Subversion by Edmond Jabès,Rosmarie Waldrop Pdf

The late Edmond Jabes was a major voice in French poetry in the latter half of this century. An Egyptian Jew, he was haunted by the question of place and the loss of place in relation to writing. He focused on the space of the book, seeing it as the true space in which exile and the promised land meet in poetry and in question. Jabes's mode of expression has been variously described: a new and mysterious kind of literary work - as dazzling as it is difficult to define, cascading aphorisms, a theater of voices in a labyrinth of forms. The manner of his writing embodies the meaning of his writing. Jabes's book is a manifesto not only of his own poetry, but of the most advanced critical poetry written during this century, one in which he engages in dialogue with some of its outstanding philosophers (Blanchot, Levinas, and Derrida)

Author : Edmond Jabès
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Poetry
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110450652

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Desire for a Beginning by Edmond Jabès Pdf

Artwork by Edmond Jabes. Rosmarie WaldropContributions by Ed Epping. Translated by Rosmarie Waldrop.

Author : Edmond Jabès
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1991-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0819562521

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From the Book to the Book by Edmond Jabès Pdf

"The texts that Edmond Jabes has assembled here span seventeen books and the years between 1943 and 1985. They form a carefully composed jo.

Author : Edmond Jabès
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1991-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0819562475

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The Book of Questions by Edmond Jabès Pdf

A meditative narrative of Jewish Experience and man's relation to the world. The Book of Questions, of which volumes IV, V, VI are together published here, is a meditative narrative of Jewish Experience, and, more generally, man's relation to the world. In these volumes the word is personified in the woman Yaël, silence in her still-born child Elya. Even though words imply ambiguity and lies, they are the home of the exile. A book becomes the Book, fragments of the law that are in some way unified, where past and present, the visionary, and the common place, encounter each other. For Jabès every word is a question in the book of being. Man defines himself in the world against all that threatens his existence- death, the infinite, silence, that is, God, his primal opponent. How can one speak what cannot be spoken?

Author : Edmond Jabès
Publisher : Wesleyan
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0819551473

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The Book of Dialogue by Edmond Jabès Pdf

Poems make use of aphorisms, meditation, narrative, and questions to consider the nature of God, silence, death, and human relationships

Author : Warren F. Motte
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015017937601

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Questioning Edmond Jabès by Warren F. Motte Pdf

Author : Edmond Jabès
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1989-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0226388867

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The Book of Shares by Edmond Jabès Pdf

As we approach sharing let us ask: "What belongs to me?" Balance sheet of a life ratified by death. Whatever exists has no existence unless shared. Possessions under seal are lost possessions. At first sight, giving, offering yourself in order to receive an equivalent gift in return, would seem to be ideal sharing. But can All be divided? Can a feeling, a book, a life be shared entirely? On the other hand, if we cannot share all, what remains and will always remain outside sharing? What has never, at the heart of our possessions, been ours? And what if we can share the vital desire to share, our only means of escape from solitude, from nothingness?

Author : Edmond Jabès
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Authors, French
ISBN : UOM:39015017977805

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From the Desert to the Book by Edmond Jabès Pdf

Author : Przemysław Tacik
Publisher : Studies in Jewish History and Memory
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : French literature
ISBN : 3631675232

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The Freedom of Lights: Edmond Jabès and Jewish Philosophy of Modernity by Przemysław Tacik Pdf

The book offers a comprehensive philosophical reconstruction of the work of Edmond Jabès─a Jewish-French poet, modern Kabbalist and thinker. It is a starting point for an enquiry into the nature of the encounter between Judaism and modern philosophy. Philosophically, Judaism becomes a re-constructed tradition: a field played with by modern forces.

Author : Steven Jaron
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015058707277

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Edmond Jabès by Steven Jaron Pdf

The Jewish writer Edmond Jabes, born in Cairo in 1912, wrote explicitly from the perspective of exile once he arrived in France after the Suez crisis. However in this book Steven Jaron argues that exile was a predominant theme in Jabes' work even before he left Egypt.