Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary.
Little Book Of Unsuspected Subversio
Edmond Jabes
€ 102.33
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for Little Book Of Unsuspected Subversio
hardcover. This is a series of meditations on the question of place and the loss of place in relation to writing by one of the major voices in modern French poetry. Translator(s): Waldro, Rosmarie; Waldrop, Rosmarie. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 92 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. .
A Stanford University Press classic.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
92
Condition
New
Series
Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
Number of Pages
92
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804726832
SKU
V9780804726832
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50
About Edmond Jabes
The late Edmond Jabes was a major voice in French poetry in the latter half of this century. An Egyptian Jew, he was haunted by the question of place and the loss of place in relation to writing, and he was one of the most significant thinkers of what one might call poetical alienation. He focused on the space of ... Read more
Reviews for Little Book Of Unsuspected Subversio
“Jabès explores a realm of subversiveness above suspicion, indeed a dialectic of subversion itself. Poised between the poetic and the aphoristic, Jabès’s new book calls into deep meditative question the easy, received notions of subversiveness which have become a sort of default mode for diligently dull academic scholars, and celebrates the energies of ever-freshened inquiry.”—John Hollander, Yale University