The Book of Questions, Volume I

by Edmond Jabès

The Book of Questions (Collections and Selections — Omnibus 1-3)

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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 Yaël, 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, show more encounter each other. For Jabès 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? show less

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Edmond Jabès
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Waldrop, Rosmarie (Translator)

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The Book of Questions
Edmond Jabès
7 works (Collections and Selections — Omnibus 1-3)

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Poetry, Fiction and Literature
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848.91407 — Literature & rhetoric French Literature French miscellaneous writings 1900- 1900-1999 1945-1999 Without identifiable literary form
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PQ2619 .A112 .L513 — Language and Literature French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese literatures French literature Modern literature 1900-1960
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