Background
Jabès, Edmond was born in 1912 in Cairo.
Jabès, Edmond was born in 1912 in Cairo.
Paris.
Participated in French Resistance, 1939. Fled to Egypt, working as stockbroker and writing for surrealist periodicals. After Suez Crisis returned to France, 1957.
define Judaism in terms of the written word, or text. He even states that to write is to be Jewish, Judaism being an allegory of the ‘difference', or ‘exile', experienced by the writer. Like Derrida and Levinas he combines various literary devices and subjects to form one piece, juxtaposing phrases culled from Jewish tradition with those from literary and philosophical sources. He has been commented on in a variety of countries and languages, two of the most impressive interpretations being by Derrida and Maurice Blanchot. Sources: Schoeps; National Union Catalog; Cumulative Philosophical Book Index.