The threshold and the ledger / Tom McCarthy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McCarthy, Tom, 1969 May 22- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bachmann, Ingeborg, 1926-1973--Criticism and interpretation.

Bachmann, Ingeborg.

Austrian poetry--History and criticism--20th century.

Austrian poetry.

Genre:

Literary criticism.

Physical Description:

72 pages ; 18 cm

Place of Publication:

Kendal : Notting Hill Editions Ltd, 2025.

Summary:

"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 year, McCarthy's book argues for the centrality of her vision to the very act of literature itself."--Publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781912559671

1912559676

OCLC:

1478325059

Publisher Number:

CIPO000269918