The death of Edmond Jabes in January 1991 silenced one of the most
compelling voices of the postmodern, post-Holocaust era. Jabes'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, Jabes is again concerned with the questions that
inform all of his work: the nature of writing, of silence, of God
and the Book. Jabes considers the work of several of his
contemporaries, including Georges Bataille, Maurice Blanchot, Roger
Caillois, Paul Celan, Jacques Derrida, Michel Leiris, Emmanuel
Levinas, 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 Jabes 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
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