Edmond Jabès and the Archaeology of the Book: Text, Pre-Texts, Contexts

By Tsivia Frank-Wygoda and Tsivia Wygoda Frank

This book offers a fresh reflection on The Book of Questions by the French-Egyptian Jewish writer Edmond Jab s and its readings, and proposes to re-contextualize Jab s' enigmatic prose through the lens of the author's manuscripts. Addressed are the main prisms through which Jab s' 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110629550
• ISBN13: 9783110629552
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: de Gruyter
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary