The Book of Shares

Edmond Jabès

The Book of Shares
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Edmond Jabès

Translated by Rosmarie Waldrop
105 pages | © 1989
Cloth $30.00 ISBN: 9780226388861 Published October 1989
As we approach sharing let us ask: "What belongs to me?"
Balance sheet of a life ratified by death.
Whatever exists has no existence unless shared.
Possessions under seal are lost possessions.
At first sight, giving, offering yourself in order to receive an equivalent gift in return, would seem to be ideal sharing.
But can All be divided?
Can a feeling, a book, a life be shared entirely?
On the other hand, if we cannot share all, what remains and will always remain outside sharing? What has never, at the heart of our possessions, been ours?
And what if we can share the vital desire to share, our only means of escape from solitude, from nothingness?
Contents
The Torment of the Book
The Book
Inheritance, I
Inheritance, II
Inheritance, III
Seal and Sedition
Adam, or the Birth of Anxiety
Gray Tint
Source Language - Target Language
The Dream
Three Legends
The Share of Goods
The Unlimited - The Limit
The Stakes
Prolongations
Liaison
Custom
Faces
At the Mercy of the Threshold
The Book Read
The Example
Burned Pages
Dawn
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