A Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of His Arm a Tiny Book
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| Rating | : | 4.20 (908 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0819562661 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 123 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-05-28 |
| Language | : | French |
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"subversive and suspicious" according to Doug Anderson. This is not a narrative but a series of aphorisms which occasionally grow into more precise prose meditations. Aphorisms however sometimes sound like clever twists of logic which prove nothing but verbal dexterity though and that is one problem with Jabes work. But that weakness is also sometimes a strength as Jabes makes use of the malleability inherent in language to stress the malleability in individual identity which is his main theme in this, his last, book. The book is a meditation on what it means to be a foreigner. For Jabes who was forced out of his homeland Egypt in 1956 because he
literature/Jewish Studies, tr Rosmarie Waldrop
It is also an indictment of bigotry. Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Publishers Weekly In this illuminating philosophical book, Jabes, who died in 1991 and lived in France after being forced to leave Egypt with other native-born Jews during the Suez War, ruminates on the link between being Jewish and being mislabeled as a foreigner. . Jabes writes, "the basic racist is the man who refuses himself as he is. The antisemite can never forgive the Jews for being capable of self-realization." Elsewhere