| The Book of Questions: Book of Yukel, and Return to the Book Contributor(s): Jabes, Edmond (Author), Waldrop, Rosmarie (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0819550116 ISBN-13: 9780819550118 Publisher: Wesleyan OUR PRICE: $28.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 1977 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
| Dewey: 848.914 |
| LCCN: 77074561 |
| Physical Information: 236 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - French - Religious Orientation - Jewish - Ethnic Orientation - Jewish |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 Ya l, 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 Jab s 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? |