Desire for a Beginning Dread of One Single End

by Edmond Jabès

Published for the first time in English, this is the last substantial work by the late French author Edmund Jab s, presented here with the subtle digital images of Ed Epping. In a series of short aphorisms, Jab s continues his lifelong interrogation of "The Book" both within the Jewish cultural tradition and twentieth-century modernism. Jab s' life work is driven in part by Mallarm 's concept of the limit, of the space beyond limits, and the space...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1887123385
• ISBN13: 9781887123389
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: Granary Books
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 4.3" x 7.0"