Lavish Absence: Recalling and Rereading Edmond Jabes Book

Foreword by Richard Stamelman Man, God, world, book A Book sui generis. The word between scream and silence The wound of individualism Metaphorical Judaism 1971: Meeting Edmond Jabes Aphorism and breath Translation: Betrayal, usurpation, "transluciferation" (de Campos), Benjamin's Art des Meinens,
Meta-story. Discontinuity. Music Erasure: J. Cohen, Groborne Rhythm. Poetry after Auschwitz. Paul Celan
"God is a word my culture has given me" Potentiality Breaking open words, "mobilization of the letter" (Guglielmi)
Language, life, Winnicott's "intermediate area"
"Book" vs. novel (Jabes), vs. writing (Derrida)
Aphorism, fragment, exploded book Breaking of the Tablets, the Vessels. Diaspora Translation: envy and pleasure in destruction The Genetic Code Writing, reading, interpretation Commentary Translation: nouns, verbs, copulas Translation: its three stages, Goethe, Novalis, Benjamin, Berman
7,rue de l"Epee de Bois Faces n pebbles Involution (Bounoure) rather than dialectic Te missing center Questioning vs. synthesis The order of the questions, syntax before-birth, after-death Arriere-absence (Daive). Approaches of the Book Subjunctive and Uncertainty Avatars of the desert. Petlin Topography of writing Max Jacob Translation: te challenge of mismatch, of silence Oriental technique of answering a question Origins in and ut of the book The "non-place" of the book Picasso and Jacob Translation: both meanings are more important Je Suis le livre Ecriture feminine The present of friendship Streets. Names Translation: displacement. "The whole surround" (C.D. Wright)
Translation: Statement. Vs song. "Motivational space" (Gadamer)
Kabbalah and Arabic literature Edmond Jabes, Italian citizen Language and being (Celan, Agamben)
Writer and word Poetry as translation, "natural language" vs "language of the God"
Writer and word, continued Translation as dialogue, as mirror Translation: mot, parole, vocable The Egypt talked about or not Dialogue The words' "law of their own"
Surrealism, Concrete Poetry. Relation of sound an sense.
Figures of speech, figures of thought Translation: The Zukofsky Catallus Three rhythms. Or maybe four
"le couscous arabe est superior"
Travel anxieties The question of resemblance
1976: first readings in the U.S.
The "text of origin"
The "non-question: being is a grammar" (Derrida)
Self-reference Banchot and others Commentary, metaphor, the gesture of significance "If I were not a writer I would be a plumber"
First years in Paris. Painters (Bacon, Still)
1986: Rabbi Braude, Amherst, jokes
"Mirror and Scarf": an exemplary chapter The chorus of rabbis The "Book of Torment"
1979: Cambridge Poetry Festival Color. Two Kinds of transparency Translation: luck and despair Working with Jabes. The nit of translation (Benjamn. De Campos)
Jabes silence vs. Gadamer's Clause Royet-Journoud, Roger Laporte Leitwort style Music. Funeral
"Black fir on white fire"
Cousins. Typos Theory vs. experience Beckett. "Life." Death
1981: Tufts, Boston, Wesleyan Universities Rue de l'Epee de Bois A Foreigner... vs. a single line of discourse Word-play, word-work Beckette vs. Batille Morandi Self-reference. The genetic paradox Mysticism, Kabbalah, Plotinus
"God"
Yael, an allegory of word and writer Borges. Winnicott's "intermediate area"
March 1983: San Diego San Francisco. Oppen Translation: le livre, dans son actualite Leiris in the rain Reb Wolgamot, Reb Av, Reb Fu Langue vs. parole, folklore vs. literature (Jakobson)
Authoria power Images: little taste for vs. their power The poetry of science
1983: Innauguration of the Centre Rachi Translation: Recit Between Cairo and Paris Why do I translate Jabes?
"Mrs. Finkelstein." Photos Michael Gizzi Vieira da Silva
"My mother tongue is foreign language"
Notes Bibliography