Daniel: Dialogues on Realization

Martin Buber Library

by Maurice S. Friedman, Maurice Friedman (Translator)

Dialogues on Realization

144 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1913

Reviews

[Evans]

Just lovely & warrants a reread. Buber’s format here softens & reveals the gray area between point & counterpoint, ultimately melding the two. Less debate, more prosaic, prophetic, poetic, and gorgeous at times. It’s floating the ball from QB to receiver, the soft hands in a clutch basketball play. It’s the oar, violin bow, drumstick floating between the musician & their instrument, the athlete and their vessel. It is so often the surrounding, or leading texts, that reveal the most elegant truths & transitions, sometimes better than an artist’s seminal most identifiable work. At the least, those preliminary or surrounding writings help one understand the more widely known works, better.

[Derek Marshall · Rating 5 out of 5]

Daniel is a lyric and peaceful dialogue which clearly sets the stage (somewhat literally in The Dialogue After the Theatre) for I and Thou. The imagery is quite beautiful and stands on its own nicely as an exploration of the human condition.

[NIGEL PEARCE · Rating 3 out of 5]

A little hard to understand ... but the greater picture is that out of dialogue comes the realization of what we know.

[Adam Gossman · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is absolutely beautiful.