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Hospitable Poetry
- L'Esprit Créateur
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 49, Number 2, Summer 2009
- pp. 34-45
- 10.1353/esp.0.0173
- Article
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Le Livre de l'hospitalité (1991), published two months after Edmond Jabès's death, is a testamentary work embracing a variety of the strategies and themes that animated his poetics from the 1940s onward. Jabès invokes hospitality as the crucial term of this volume, conceiving it as a reciprocal and affiliative gesture.