Edmond Jabes the Poetry of the Nomad - Softcover

Kluback, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0820438332 ISBN 13: 9780820438337

Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc, 1998

Synopsis

"The Poetry of the Nomad" is a unique attempt to write a nomad's poetry, to encounter both desert and book, to speak and to be silent toward the divine. The poet accepts and denies the divine. His conversations are heard and not heard. Words designate and transfigure their designations. Men listen and they understand, but understanding is the beginning of nonunderstanding. This is a dialogue of a nomad, a wandering dialogue, one that is in the book and beyond it.

About this title

Synopsis:

Jabes was exiled from Egypt in 1956; in Paris for the rest of his life, until 1991, he wrote poetry that revolved around the odyssey of Israel: the survival of the ancient tribe who had been devoted to a book and had experienced the desert of wonder and the powerful history of unending exile. Kluback's account is more a meditation than a scholarly

About the Author:

The Author: William Kluback is a writer and a former Professor of Philosophy. He has completed six volumes on Paul Valery, books on Cioran, Ionesco, Fondane, and Senghor. He is now working on an imaginary dialogue with Sri Aurobindo."

About this edition

• Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0820438332
• ISBN 13: 9780820438337
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 152