The Book of Questions
Volume II [Yaël; Elya; Aely; El, or the Last Book]
Published on 1. September 1991
Book
Paperback/Softback
452 pages
978-0-8195-6248-7 (ISBN)
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Edition
Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 215 mm
Width: 141 mm
Thickness: 34 mm
Weight
590 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8195-6248-7 (9780819562487)
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EDMOND 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 (1990), and an anthology, From the Book to the Book (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.