Edmond Jabés and the archaeology of the book: Text, pre-texts, contexts

Tsivia Frank Wygoda

doi:10.1515/9783110643022

Edmond Jabés and the archaeology of the book: Text, pre-texts, contexts

Tsivia Frank Wygoda

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Abstract

This book offers a fresh reflection on The Book of Questions by the French-Egyptian Jewish writer Edmond Jabès and its readings, and proposes to re-contextualize Jabès' enigmatic prose through the lens of the author's 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 The Book of Questions and the poetics and hermeneutics of enigmatic writing.

Original language	English
Publisher	de Gruyter
Number of pages	216
ISBN (Electronic)	9783110643022
ISBN (Print)	9783110629552
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110643022
State	Published - 8 Nov 2021
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

20th-century French literature
Archive
Jewish literature
Work-in-progress

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General Arts and Humanities

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