The Book of Questions

Book of Yukel, and Return to the Book

von Edmond Jabès

236 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

A meditative narrative of Jewish Experience and man's relation to the world.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, 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?

• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Gesellschaft und Kultur, allgemein Gesellschaftliche Gruppen, Gemeinschaften und Identitäten Religiöse Gemeinschaften
• ISBN: 9780819562470
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.09.1991
• Größe: 216 x 140 mm
• Verlag: Wesleyan University Press
• Übersetzung: Rosmarie Waldrop