{"product_id":"from-the-book-to-the-book-paperback","title":"From the Book to the Book - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEdmond Jabes\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eEdmond Jabhs\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eEdmond Jabs\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first anthology to span the oeuvre of the late writer Edmond Jabès, including pieces previously unpublished in English. It is translated from the French and includes an introductory essay. \"It is as if we had lost nothing, so near does this book of the book seem to the voice and presence of Edmond Jabès. All his rethinking and refeeling of the word and world are here. His massive and knowing melancholy, somehow radiant, is a shared one, as Jabès knew how to share: 'Our book is for tomorrow.' For today too\"-Mary Ann Caws.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEDMOND JABÈS 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 Jabès 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.72 x 8.43 x 5.53 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 28, 1992\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47450199031986,"sku":"9780819562524","price":34.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/edfaacb88aa662b5a4705c5e3fefef27.webp?v=1778782563","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/from-the-book-to-the-book-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}