Sepher Yetsira

by Carlo Suarès

English, French (translation)

150 pages, Paperback

First published November 12, 1976

About the author

Carlo Giuseppe Suarès (1892–1976) was a French writer, painter and Kabbalah author. He was born the 12 May 1892 in Alexandria, Egypt of a very old Sephardi family that arrived in Spain probably with the Arab conquest. The ancestors of his Sephardi Jewish family had been expelled from Spain in 1492 during the Inquisition and found refuge in Tuscany, Italy before emigrating to and settling in Egypt in the 18th century. Expelled from Egypt and dispossessed, he settled in Paris and became a French Citizen. He had a diploma in architecture from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, and he painted a great deal, having "in true Kabbalistic spirit" sought to discover - and found - a synthesis of light. He died in Paris the 16 July 1976.

Reviews

[Sue Dounim · Rating 1 out of 5]

Ugh. Just no. Suares takes a classic French Deconstructionist approach to his highly synthetic and idiosyncratic view of the Cabala. It won't make much sense to anyone else. Your mileage may vary.