{"product_id":"the-threshold-and-the-ledger","title":"The Threshold and the Ledger","description":"\u003cp\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 threshold and ledger — and takes off on a line of flight: through the work of Franz Kafka, David Lynch, Anne Carson, Sappho and Shakespeare.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCan 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAppearing 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. [publishers’ note]\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Notting Hill Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57358314111316,"sku":"A8B-37249","price":15.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1072\/9609\/6596\/files\/ledgeer.jpg?v=1790814798","url":"https:\/\/after8books.com\/products\/the-threshold-and-the-ledger","provider":"After 8 Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}