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The Little Book of Unsuspected Subversion
Edmond Jabes
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Description for The Little Book of Unsuspected Subversion
Paperback. Thisis 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 8. Weight in Grams: 144.
A Stanford University Press classic.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
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
9780804726849
SKU
V9780804726849
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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 The Little Book of Unsuspected Subversion
“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