“To take the wrong door means indeed to go against the order that presided over the plan of the house, over the layout of the rooms, over the beauty and rationality of the whole. But what discoveries are made possible for the visitor! The new path permits him to see what no one other than himself could have perceived from that angle. All the more so because I am not sure that one can enter a written work without having forced one’s own way in first.” – from In Place of a ForewordThe first anthology to span the oeuvre of the late writer Edmond Jabès, including pieces previously unpublished in English.The Graven Silence of Writing, by Richard Stamelman When Silence Speaks, by Rosmarie Waldropp In Place of a Foreword I Build My Dwelling Songs for the Ogre’s Feast Untitled Song Song for Two Laughs Little Song for familiar Image of Lazybones Song for Three Astonished Dead Men Sunland Seasons The Dispossessed Moment The Stranger The Pact of Spring Cut Of Time The Book of Questions At the Threshold of the Book And You Shall Be in the Book The Time of the Lovers The Book of the Living The Book of Yukel White Space Mirror and Scarf The Voice of Closed Eyes Dialogue of Stone and Sand The Lamp Grown Cold Dialogue of the Ferryman and the River-Dweller Return to the Book Dedication Forespeech Lightening and Light Test and Book Hand and Dial Drawn Curtains The Loop The hole Beads of Sweat Yael Forespeech The Light of the Sea The Story Yael’s Death The Book Elya A Puddle of Water Memory of a Dead Memory From Day to the Shadow of Day Counter- Test Door II Pledge of the Abyss Aely The Threshold of the Eye The Threshold of the Void The Book Belongs Only to the Book The Book El or the Last Book The Book of Resemblances Ed, or the First Mist Intimations: The Desert IntimalÃ2
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