Edmond Jabès and the Archaeology of the Book

Text, Pre-Texts, Contexts
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-3-11-062955-2
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, 211 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 531 g

Reihe: Perspectives on Jewish texts and contexts

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

Zielgruppe

Researchers, Students (Literary Studies, Jewish Studies, French S

Autoren/Hrsg.

Frank Wygoda, Tsivia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Einzelne Autoren: Monographien & Biographien
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien: Literatur & Kunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturkritik: Hermeneutik und Interpretation

Über Autor(innen)

Tsivia Frank-Wygoda, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.