The Book of Resemblances
Edmond Jabès
1976
The author of the book in question hides behind various pseudonyms, which are promptly presented as voices from the beginning of time and as figures both familiar and strange: for he is himself a stranger to his own person and book—if one can even claim that the book whose instrument he has been is his. He is, in fact, a book carried by all books…
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