EDMOND JAB�S died in Paris in 1991 at the age of 78. He settled in France after being expelled from his native Egypt with other Jews during the 1956 Suez Crisis. In 1987 he received France's National Grand Prize for Poetry. His other works available in English include The Book of Dialogue (1987), The Book of Resemblances in three volumes, and The Book of Questions issued in two volumes in 1991. ROSMARIE WALDROP's most recent books are a volume of poetry, Peculiar Motions (1990), and a novel, A Form / of Taking / It All (1990). Her translations of Jab�s won a Columbia University Translation Center Award. RICHARD STAMELMAN is Professor of Romance Languages and Literature and William R. Jenan, Jr., Professor of Humanities at Wesleyan University.
"I first read The Book of Questions twenty years ago, and my life
was permanently changed by it. I can no longer think about the
possibilities of literature without thinking of the example of
Edmond Jab�s. He is one of the great spirits of our time, a torch
in the darkness."--Paul Auster
"It is as if we had lost nothing, so near does this book of the
book seem to the voice and presence of Edmond Jab�s. All his
rethinking and refeeling of the word and world are here. His
massive and knowing melancholy, somehow radiant, is a shared one,
as Jab�s knew how to share: 'Our book is for tomorrow.' For today
too."--Mary Ann Caws
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