From the Book to the Book: An Edmond Jabes Reader - Brossura

Jabes, Edmond

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ISBN 10: 0819562521 ISBN 13: 9780819562524

Casa editrice: Wesleyan Univ Pr, 1991

Riassunto

“To take the wrong door means indeed to go against the order that presided over the plan of the house, over the layout of the rooms, over the beauty and rationality of the whole. But what discoveries are made possible for the visitor! The new path permits him to see what no one other than himself could have perceived from that angle. All the more so because I am not sure that one can enter a written work without having forced one’s own way in first.” – from In Place of a Foreword

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L'autore:

EDMOND JABES died in Paris in 1991 at the age of 78. He settled in France after being expelled from his native Egypt with other Jews during the 1956 Suez Crisis. In 1987 he received France's National Grand Prize for Poetry. His other works available in English include The Book of Dialogue (1987), The Book of Resemblances in three volumes, and The Book of Questions issued in two volumes in 1991.

ROSMARIE WALDROP's most recent books are a volume of poetry, Peculiar Motions (1990), and a novel, A Form / of Taking / It All (1990). Her translations of Jabes won a Columbia University Translation Center Award.

RICHARD STAMELMAN is Professor of Romance Languages and Literature and William R. Jenan, Jr., Professor of Humanities at Wesleyan University.

Product Description:

The first anthology to span the oeuvre of the late writer Edmond Jabhs, including pieces previously unpublished in English. It is translated from the French and includes an introductory essay. "It is as if we had lost nothing, so near does this book of the book seem to the voice and presence of Edmond Jabhs. All his rethinking and refeeling of the word and world are here. His massive and knowing melancholy, somehow radiant, is a shared one, as Jabhs knew how to share: 'Our book is for tomorrow.' For today too"-Mary Ann Caws.

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• Editore: Wesleyan Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0819562521
• ISBN 13: 9780819562524
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 240