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Synopsis
Literary Nonfiction. Criticism and Theory. Jewish Studies. The fate of the individual among disintegrating tradition is a major theme of Edmund Jabes. In this book of literary and philosophical conversations, France's leading Jewish writer adds an intimate, personal dimension to his formidable 40-year career. Compelling in its inquiry into the fate of reading and writing in our time, it is also profoundly ambiguous, open to a multiplicity of possible readings. This work offers insight of a new kind into this major writer's growing canon in English--thoughts on his own works combine with stories of his youth in Egypt, his exile in 1956, other writers and artists, the Kabbalah, and projections for a postmodern world. "For anyone who is interested in the last frontiers of thought and language he is an irreplaceable writer"--Graham Martin, The Times Literary Supplement.
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An Egyptian Jew born in 1912, Jabes, who was educated at the Sorbonne and has always written in French, settled in Paris in 1957. Although he has been awarded prizes for his poetry and for his two major works, The Book of Questions (seven volumes) and The Book of Resemblances , his writing has been widely criticized as difficult and obscure. These dialogues, too, conducted with novelist-poet-journalist Cohen will appeal to a limited audience. Discussed are Jabes's friendships and influences, the mystery of Creation, the use of language ("to write accurately"), his fascination with words and with spelling, the difference between being a Jewish writer (which he considers himself not to be) and a Jew who is a writer. Photos.
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- PublisherStation Hill Press
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 0882680617
- ISBN 13 9780882680613
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages186
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Station Hill Press, Barrytown, N.Y., 1990
ISBN 10: 0882680617
ISBN 13: 9780882680613
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Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. xi, 122 pages, 9 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations. Ex-library, with library markings limited to the ghost of a label at the upper hinge corner of the front panel, a property stamp (lined out) at the upper fore-corner of the front pastedown, a cancellation stamp at the front free endpaper, minor markings in pencil and a small stamp in ink to the copyright page, minor markings in pencil to the following page, remnants of a circulation slip at the rear pastedown, and a barcode label (lined out) and a cancellation stamp at the rear pastedown. The binding is worn and sunned; the contents are unmarked. 390 grams. Seller Inventory # 014445
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