{"product_id":"9781912559671-threshold-the-ledger","title":"The Threshold and the Ledger","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA timely exploration of Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann by Booker-shortlisted author Tom McCarthy.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eSince 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 \u003cem\u003ethreshold\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eledger\u003c\/em\u003e — 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 \u003cem\u003eec-stasis\u003c\/em\u003e, 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. \u003cstrong\u003eIngeborg Bachmann\u003c\/strong\u003e (25 June 1926 – 17 October 1973) was an Austrian poet and author. She is regarded as one of the major voices of German-language literature in the 20th century. In 1963, she was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56087398089078,"sku":"9781912559671","price":8.65,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_35737140_144386b8-97ac-40c2-91bf-b9d011e6ded6.jpg?v=1755754602","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781912559671-threshold-the-ledger","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}