Edmond Jabès The Book of Margins Paperback sku-28910618

Edmond Jabès's The Book of Margins is a paperback in the Religion and Postmodernism series, listed under Religion & Religious Studies Books as sku-28910618. The book considers writing, silence, God and the Book, alongside work by Georges Bataille, Maurice Blanchot, Roger Caillois, Paul Celan, Jacques Derrida, Michel Leiris, Emmanuel Lévinas, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Rosmarie Waldrop.

Jabès combines aphorism, fictional dialogue, prose meditation and poetry. Born in Cairo in 1912, he lived in France from 1956 until his death in January 1991. His other works include The Book of Questions and The Book of Shares, both translated into English by Waldrop, who is also a poet.