Bøger i World Republic of Letters (Yale) serien

Now available in paperback, the original English-language translation of O Cadhain's raucous masterpiece

A career retrospective of poetry and prose works by one of the under-recognized giants of French literature

Taking up Gershom Scholem's call to plumb the "tremendous poetic potential concealed" in the Kabbalistic tradition, this book provides dazzling English renderings of works composed on three continents over a period of some fifteen hundred years. It presents the texts in their original languages alongside the English translations.

Tolea, an eccentric middle-aged intellectual who has been dismissed from his job as a high school teacher on "moral grounds", is investigating his father's death forty years after the fact, and is drawn into a web of suspicion and black humour.