Edmond Jabès and the Archaeology of the Book

Zusatztext

<p>This book offers a fresh reflection on<em>The Book of Questions</em> by the French-Egyptian Jewish writer Edmond Jabès and its readings, and proposes to re-contextualizeJabès' enigmatic prose through the lens of the authors 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<em>The Book of Questions</em> and the poetics and hermeneutics of enigmatic writing.</p><p></p>

Autorenportrait

<p><strong>Tsivia Frank-Wygoda</strong>, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.</p>

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