num_pages: 144
description: "Apikoros Sleuth" is a murder mystery in the form of a Talmudic inquiry, a rigorous and relentless pursuit of truth and justice in the full knowledge of the impossibility of ever entirely attaining the goal. In search of the possibility of an aesthetic response to the limits of representations, resisting categories, including that of the book itself, "Apikoros Sleuth" re-examines the practice of writing and the writer's relationship to language. The result is a palimpsest of the most ancient text of the Kabbalah and the final tractate of the Jewish Talmud, which asks the question "How should we act?"
language: English
title: Apikoros Sleuth
titlecomplete: Apikoros Sleuth
genres: Literature
ratings_count: 11
publisher: The Mercury Press