The fate of the individual among disintegrating tradition is a major theme of Edmund Jabes. In this book of literary and philosophical conversations, France's leading Jewish writer adds an intimate, personal dimension to his formidable 40-year career. Compelling in its inquiry into the fate of reading and writing in our time, it is also profoundly ambiguous, open to a multiplicity of possible readings. This work offers insight of a new kind into this major writer's growing canon in English-thoughts on his own works combine with stories of his youth in Egypt, his exile in 1956, other writers and artists, the Kabbalah, and projections for a postmodern world.
ISBN: | 9780882680613 |
Publication date: | 1st January 2010 |
Author: | Edmond Jabes |
Publisher: | Barrytown/Station Hill Press an imprint of Station Hill Press |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 277 pages |
Genres: |
Social groups: religious groups and communities Literature: history and criticism |