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The death of Edmond Jabes in January 1991 silenced one of the most compellingvoices of the postmodern postHolocaust era. Jabess importance as a thinkerphilosopher and Jewish theologian cannot be overestimated and his enigmaticstylecombining aphorism fictional dialogue prose meditation poetry andother formsholds special appeal for postmodern sensibilities.In The Book of Margins his most critical as well as most accessible bookJabes is again concerned with the questions that inform all of his work thenature of writing of silence of God and the Book. Jabes considers the work ofseveral of his contemporaries including Georges Bataille Maurice BlanchotRoger Caillois Paul Celan Jacques Derrida Michel Leiris Emmanuel LevinasPier Paolo Pasolini and his translator Rosmarie Waldrop. This book will beimportant reading for students of Jewish literature French literature andliterature of the modern and postmodern ages.Born in Cairo in 1912 Edmond Jabes lived in France from 1956 until his deathin 1991. His extensively translated and widely honored works include The Bookof Questions and The Book of Shares. Both of these were translated intoEnglish by Rosmarie Waldrop who is also a poet.Religion and Postmodernism series «
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