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Title: The Book of Shares by Edmond Jabes, Mark C. Taylor, Rosemarie Waldrop ISBN: 0-226-38886-7 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 1989 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: Intriguing, thought-provoking, unique
Comment: This book made me a Edmond Jabes fan - I doubt that any other of his books would have for this is by far the most accessible. Jabes is an Egyptian Jew in exile in France writing primarily after the Holocaust. His writing style is a series of snippets - fiction, poetry, aphorisms - that explore the limits of language and the role of the blank, the silence, the desert, the unwritten. In The Books of Shares each of these snippets stands on its own - that is not true, for example, of the multi-volume Book of Questions. The result is a truly post-modern reflection on theology and philosophy - and post-modern without pretention.
When I read this book on a silent retreat, I found passage after passage that I wanted to hear, to memorize, to enter into my journal.
An example: "Out of the words of his language, a writer forges new words, not neologisms, but words irrigated with his blood. He founds a second language which, to be sure, is rooted in the first with all its fibers, but which henceforth, being his own - O paradox - is nobody's. Because the writer's language wants to be only of the book, of the instant and duration of a liberated word."
If you enjoy the Books of Shares, there are many wonderful volumes of Jabes to follow. If you do not enjoy this, you may safely assume that Jabes is not your reading choice.
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Title: Lavish Absence: Recalling and Rereading Edmond Jabes by Rosmarie Waldrop, Richard Stamelman ISBN: 0819565806 Publisher: Wesleyan University Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Book of Questions: The Book of Questions/the Book of Yukel/Return to the Book/3 Books in 1 by Edmond Jabes, Rosemarie Waldrop, Rosmarie Waldrop ISBN: 0819562475 Publisher: Wesleyan University Press Pub. Date: 15 September, 1991 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression (Religion and Postmodernism Series) by Jacques Derrida ISBN: 0226143678 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Book of Questions: Yael Elya Aely El, or the Last Book by Edmond Jabes, Rosemarie Waldrop ISBN: 0819562483 Publisher: Wesleyan University Press Pub. Date: 15 September, 1991 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The Book of Margins by Edmond Jabes, Rosmarie Waldrop ISBN: 0226388891 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1993 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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