TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wygoda Frank,Tsivia
TI  - Edmond Jabès and the Archaeology of the Book: Text, Pre-Texts, Contexts 
T2  - Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts ,
SN  - 9783110629552
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston : 
PB  - De Gruyter, 
KW  - Archiv
KW  - Französische Literatur/20. Jahrhundert
KW  - Jüdische Literatur
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - 20th-century French Literature
KW  - Archive
KW  - Jewish Literature
KW  - Work-in-progress
N1  - 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; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110643022
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110643022
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110643022/original
ER  -