| The Little Book of Unsuspected Subversion Contributor(s): Jabès, Edmond (Author), Waldrop, Rosmarie (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0804726841 ISBN-13: 9780804726849 Publisher: Stanford University Press OUR PRICE: $22.80 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 1996 Annotation: In the present volume Jabes makes writing the place where the biblical interdiction of representation is expanded to writing in general. Writing thus restates the interdiction of writing, and accordingly is the permanent trespassing of its own law at once its erection and its undoing, subservient to the law and failing to fulfill it, its pronouncement and its silence. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - French - Literary Criticism | Poetry |
| Dewey: 848.914 |
| LCCN: 95038273 |
| Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics |
| Physical Information: 0.33" H x 5.58" W x 8.57" (0.32 lbs) 92 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The late Edmond Jabes was a major voice in French poetry in the latter half of this century. An Egyptian Jew, he was haunted by the question of place and the loss of place in relation to writing. He focused on the space of the book, seeing it as the true space in which exile and the promised land meet in poetry and in question. Jabes's mode of expression has been variously described: a new and mysterious kind of literary work - as dazzling as it is difficult to define, cascading aphorisms, a theater of voices in a labyrinth of forms. The manner of his writing embodies the meaning of his writing. Jabes's book is a manifesto not only of his own poetry, but of the most advanced critical poetry written during this century, one in which he engages in dialogue with some of its outstanding philosophers (Blanchot, Levinas, and Derrida) |