On the threshold of nothingness

Book name: On the Threshold of Nonexistence Author: Edmond Jabès Publisher: Khutut wa Zilal Book classification: Novel Number of pages: 100 About the book: Inside "The Book of Questions" the reader steps on "the threshold of nonexistence," where the thirst of the desert is extinguished. (Because Edmond Jabès teaches us that roots speak, words burst forth, and poetic speech revives in the wound). Jabès's poetic passages are sandy folds in the wind's direction. You hardly become familiar with one of them until sweat drips in the wound of the book. Thus, the wound of the personal name lies in this book, mourning the words of speech and the veil of writing. Since writing in the book is an erasure whose journey begins from the Book of Genesis to the Book of Exodus. Therefore, the writer/reader remains surrounded by absence, trapped by emptiness, inside and outside the book.