Edmond Jabès and the Archaeology of the Book : : Text, Pre-Texts, Contexts / / Tsivia Wygoda Frank.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021
• VerfasserIn: Wygoda Frank, Tsivia,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts , 11
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (IX, 211 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Acknowledgements --; Contents --; Abbreviations --; Introduction: Enigmas, Beneath and Beyond --; Part I: Before the Book --; 1 Jews in Egypt. First Pre-texts --; 2 The Tale of Jacques. The Hidden Narrative of the Book --; 3 On Being Jewish. Writing and Rewriting --; 4 Rabbis, Poets, Commentators. The Addition of Text --; 5 From Bible to Book. Local and Metatextual Translations --; 6 Becoming Book. Archaeology of a Preface --; Part II: The Paths Toward Metaphor --; Chapter 1 Jewishness Deconstructed --; Chapter 2 Un-Writing the Holocaust --; Part III: The Book and Its Pre-Texts. Theoretical Questions --; Chapter 3 Manuscripts, Intertextuality, Hermeneutics --; Chapter 4 The Book, the Palimpsest, and the Graffiti. Archaeological Reflections on the Open Text --; Bibliography
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110643022; 9783110750720; 9783110750706; 9783110659061; 9783110616859; 9783110754001; 9783110753776; 9783110754193; 9783110753974
• ISSN: 2199-6962
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110643022
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Tsivia Wygoda Frank.

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.