Edmond Jabes and the Hazard of Exile
, by Jaron,Steven- ISBN: 9781900755719 | 1900755718
- Cover: Nonspecific Binding
- Copyright: 11/1/2002
"Theodor Adorno observed that 'For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live'. The Jewish writer Edmond Jabes, born in Cairo in 1912, wrote explicitly from the perspective of exile once he arrived in France after the Suez crisis. "