Book of Questions The Book of Questions/the Book of Yukel/Return to the Book/3 Books in 1

The Book of Questions, of which volumes IV, V, VI are together published here, is a meditative narrative of Jewish Experience, and, more generally, man's relation to the world. In these volumes the word is personified in the woman Yael, silence in her still-born child Elya. Even though words imply ambiguity and lies, they are the home of the exile. A book becomes the Book, fragments of the law that are in some way unified, where past and present, the visionary, and the common place, encounter each other. For Jabes every word is a question in the book of being. Man defines himself in the world against all that threatens his existence- death, the infinite, silence, that is, God, his primal opponent. How can one speak what cannot be spoken?Jabes, Edmond is the author of 'Book of Questions The Book of Questions/the Book of Yukel/Return to the Book/3 Books in 1' with ISBN 9780819562470 and ISBN 0819562475.