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Edmond jabès at the threshold of the book
Jabes en la biblia

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Edmond Jabès

The Book of Questions: Volume I [I. The Book of Questions, II. The Book of Yukel, III. Return to the Book]
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4.50 avg rating — 321 ratings — published 1963 — 18 editions

The Book of Questions: Volume II [IV. Yaël, V. Elya, VI. Aely, VII. El, Or the Last Book]
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4.65 avg rating — 128 ratings — published 1963 — 16 editions

The Little Book of Unsuspected Subversion
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4.22 avg rating — 96 ratings — published 1982 — 12 editions

The Book of Margins
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4.44 avg rating — 84 ratings — published 1975 — 14 editions

A Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of His Arm a Tiny Book
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4.11 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 1989 — 14 editions

From the Book to the Book: An Edmond Jabès Reader
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4.47 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 1989 — 6 editions

If There Were Anywhere But Desert: The Selected Poems
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4.34 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 1988 — 3 editions

The Book of Shares
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Edmond Jabès

The Best Poem Of Edmond Jabès

At the Threshold of the Book

'What is going on behind this door?'
'A book is shedding its leaves.'
'What is the story of the book?'
'Becoming aware of a scream.'
'I saw rabbis go in.'
'They are privileged readers. They come in small groups to give us their comments.'
'Have they read the book?'
'They are reading it.'
'Did they happen by for the fun of it?'
'They foresaw the book. They are prepared to encounter it.'
'Do they know the characters?'
'They know our martyrs.'
'Where is the book set?'
'In the book.'
'Who are you?'
'I am the keeper of the house.'
'Where do you come from?'
'I have wandered.'
'Is Yukel your friend?'
'I am like Yukel.'
'What is your lot?'
'To open the book.'
'Are you in the book?'
'My place is at the threshold.'
'What have you tried to learn?'
'I sometimes stop on the road to the sources and question the signs, the world of my ancestors.'
'You examine recaptured words.'
'The nights and mornings of the syllables which are mine, yes.'
'Your mind is wandering.'
'I have been wand

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Edmond Jabès

French writer and poet

For the scientific journal abbreviated as JABES, see Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics.

Edmond Jabès (French:[ʒabɛs]; Arabic: إدمون جابيس; Cairo, April 14, 1912^[1] – Paris, January 2, 1991) was a French writer and poet of Egyptian origin, and one of the best known literary figures writing in French after World War II. The work he produced when living in France in the late 1950s until his death in 1991 is highly original in form and breadth.

Life

The son of a prominent Jewish family in Egypt going back to the 19th century, he was born and brought up in Cairo where he received a classical French education. He began publishing in French and writing for the theater at an early age. From the 1930s on, he was active in Cairo's artistic and literary avant-garde culture, while also nurturing relationships with poets and publishers in France. He was made a Knight of the Legion of Honor in 1952 for his literary accomplishments.

When Egypt expelled most of its Jewish population (