This essay attempts to provide a new interpretation of Gyorgy Kardos’s novel, Seven Days in the Life of Avraham Bogatir, from the perspective of the philosophy of dialogue, based on the works of Franz Rosenzweig and Martin Buber. Both the „Seven Days” in the title and the motto of the novel refer to the biblical creation story. According to Rosenzweig, creation is not the birth of order from chaos, on the contrary: it is the decomposition of the unity’s order into the pieces of chaos. And in this beginning, there is no language to make a connection between them.
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