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The Book of Questions - El, or the Last Book (Hardcover) Loot Price: R606
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The Book of Questions - El, or the Last Book (Hardcover): Edmond Jabes

The Book of Questions - El, or the Last Book (Hardcover)

Edmond Jabes; Translated by R. Waldrop

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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?

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Imprint: Wesleyan
Country of origin: United States
Release date: August 1984
Authors: Edmond Jabes
Translators: R. Waldrop
Dimensions: 216 x 140mm (L x W)
Format: Hardcover - Sewn / Cloth over boards
Pages: 165
ISBN-13: 978-0-8195-5109-2
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General
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LSN: 0-8195-5109-0
Barcode: 9780819551092

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