ABSTRACT

Throughout his literary career, which spanned over sixty years, Avot Yeshurun responded to readers’ dismay at his poems’ hermeticism by attempting to explain the logic of his writing. Although critics never fail to mention the difficulty of Yeshurun’s poetic language, his self-exegetic texts, which often appeared as paratexts in his volumes of poetry, have gone largely ignored. This essay reads Yeshurun’s self-commentary as a fundamental tenet of his writing and as a crucial aspect of his poetic address. While this self-commentary is at times hermetic in itself, it embodies the tension between Yeshurun’s pursuit of self-knowledge and the ineffable nature of his inner world. Yeshurun’s exceptionally difficult poetic language, and especially his use of the enigmatic word “yahndes,” which provoked critics’ ire upon its first appearance in 1952, will be read in two discursive contexts: Roman Jakobson’s “Linguistics and Poetics” and W.R. Bion’s “Attacks on Linking.” While both Jakobson’s and Bion’s formulation may shed light on the fractured communication between Yeshurun and his readers, his self-commentary may be viewed as attempts to reach out and mend this rift.

摘要

在他六十多年的文学生涯中，阿沃特·耶舒伦试图解释他的写作逻辑，以回应读者对他诗歌的封闭主义的失望。尽管批评家们总是提到耶舒伦诗歌语言的困难，但他的自我解释文本在他的诗集中经常作为副文本出现，但在很大程度上被忽视了。这篇文章将耶舒伦的自评解读为他写作的基本原则，也是他诗歌演说的一个重要方面。虽然这种自我评论本身有时是封闭的，但它体现了耶舒伦对自我知识的追求与他内心世界不可言喻的本质之间的紧张关系。Yeshurun 异常难懂的诗歌语言，尤其是他使用神秘的词“yahndes”，这在 1952 年首次出现时引起了评论家的愤怒，将在两种话语背景下阅读：Roman Jakobson 的“语言学和诗学”和 WR Bion 的“连接攻击”。虽然雅各布森和比昂的表述都可能揭示耶舒伦和他的读者之间破裂的沟通，但他的自我评论可能被视为试图伸手弥补这一裂痕。