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Edmond Jabès

The Book of Margins

Translated by Rosmarie Waldrop
222 pages,  5-1/2 x 8-1/2  © 1993
Series: Religion and Postmodernism Series

Cloth $54.00

ISBN: 9780226388885   Published June 1993

Paper $23.00

ISBN: 9780226388892   Published June 1993

Series Editor's Foreword
1. It Goes Its Way
Page without Date, Undatable
First Step
Intimate Distance
The Eternity of Stones
The Moment After
Wing and Bond
On Fear, I
One Fear, II and III
Of the Recovery and the Reservations of the Text
The State of the Game (Michel Leiris)
The Unconditional (Maurice Blanchot)
V'herb
The Absoluteness of Death
2. Doubly Dependent on the Said
Fore-Speech
The Bet
Intimate Distance, II
The Point
Wrinkles of the Day
Which
Carte Blanche
The Merits of Comfort: Its Portion of Night
The Oval
The Setting - The Opening
May He Rest in Thus
Writing in Motion (Short Reply to a Questionnaire of La Quinzaine Littéraire: Does Writing Have a Gender?)
1977 (Reply to a Questionnaire of Les Nouvelles Littéraires)
The Invention of the Word
The Wall
Memory of Paul Celan
The Man with the Secret
(Max Jacob)
Days of Wrinkles
I.
The Infallible Decree
(Jacket copy for L'Arrêt de mort by Maurice Blanchot, Collection "L'Imaginaire," Gallimard)
There Is No Trace But in the Desert
(With Emmanuel Lévinas)
II.
Extract from a Speech
(given on April 21, 1982, in Paris, at the Foundation for French Judaism)
Extract from a Speech
(given on the occasion of a day in honor of P. P. Pasolini, Milan, May 2, 1983)
The Word of the Book
The Naked Sword
(Michel Leiris)
The Unconditional, II
(Maurice Blanchot)
Louis-René des Forêts or The Unease of the Question
In the Margins of Yaël
(From the Rediscovered Draft of a Letter to Gabriel Bounoure)
In Farewell
Awards
  • Harold Morton Landon Translation Award
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