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على عتبة العدم

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داخل "كتاب الأسئلة" يطأ القارئ "عتبة العدم"، حيث ينطفئ ظمأ الصحراء. (ذلك لأن إدموند جابيس يُعلِّمُنا أنَّ الجذورَ تتكلمُ، والألفاظَ تتفتقُ، والخطابَ الشعري ينتعشُ في الجُرح).
مقاطع جابيس الشعرية طَيَّاتٌ رمليَّةٌ في مَهبِّ الرِّيح. لا تكادُ تستأنِسُ بواحِدٍ منها حتى يَتفصَّدَ عَرقاً في جُرحِ الكِتاب.
هكذا، يَكمنُ جُرحُ الاسم الشخصي، في هذا الكِتاب، حِداداً على أقولِ الكلام وعماءِ الكتابة. إذ أن الكتابةَ في الكِتابِ مَحوٌ يبتدِئُ تِرحالهُ مِن سِفرِ التكوينِ إلى سِفرِ الخروج. لهذا يظل الكاتبُ/ القارِئ محاصرا بالغياب، محاصراً بالفراغ، داخل الكِتاب وخارجَهُ.

100 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2021

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Edmond Jabès

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Edmond Jabes was a major voice in French poetry in the latter half of this century. An Egyptian Jew, he was haunted by the question of place and the loss of place in relation to writing, and he was one of the most significant thinkers of what one might call poetical alienation. He focused on the space of the book, seeing it as the true space in which exile and the promised land meet in poetry and in question. (This is summarized from the reader's description in A New History of French Literature, ed. Denis Hollier.) Very many of Jabes's books of prose and poetry have been translated into English, including The Book of Dialogue ( Wesleyan, 1987) and The Book of Margins (Chicago, 1993), both translated by Rosmarie Waldrop.

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‏"تَصمُتُ، أكونُ في غَيبِ كانَ. تتكَلمُ، أكونْ."
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