The Psalter. Book One (Ps 1-41)

Like the fifth book, the first book does not merely juxtapose isolated prayers; the forty-one psalms constituting it form a highly elaborate architecture, in accordance with the principle of self-similarity of fractals, or following the procedure of mise en abyme. The book is organised as its second section and even more as the third one. The first side of each of these two sections features the...