The Threshold and the Ledger (eBook)

McCarthy Tom (Autor)

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2025
80 Seiten
Notting Hill Editions (Verlag)
9781912559626 (ISBN)

Infos

Since her untimely death in 1973, Ingeborg Bachmann has come to be regarded as one of the twentieth century's most important writers. Unpacking a single Bachmann poem, novelist Tom McCarthy latches onto two of its central terms – the eponymous threshold and ledger – and takes off on a line of flight: through the work of Franz Kafka, David Lynch, Anne Carson, Sappho and Shakespeare.Can writing be understood as an experience of the threshold, a limit- or boundary-state? A condition of ecstasy or ec-stasis, standing outside of oneself? With identity ruptured and surpassed, how – and by whom – might such experience be recorded? Appearing on the eve of Bachmann's centenary, McCarthy's book argues for the centrality of her vision to the very act of literature itself.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.9.2025
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: Anne Carson • David Lynch • Franz Kafka • German Literature • Ingeborg Bachmann • Sappho • Shakespeare • tom mccarthy
• ISBN-13: 9781912559626 / 9781912559626