{"product_id":"threshold-and-the-ledger","title":"Threshold and the Ledger","description":"\u003cb\u003eA timely exploration of Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann by Booker-shortlisted author Tom McCarthy.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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 \u003ci\u003ethreshold\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eledger\u003c\/i\u003e -- and takes off on a line of flight: through the work of Franz Kafka, David Lynch, Anne Carson, Sappho and Shakespeare. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCan writing be understood as an experience of the threshold, a limit- or boundary- state? A condition of ecstasy or \u003ci\u003eec-stasis\u003c\/i\u003e, standing outside of oneself? With identity ruptured and surpassed, how and by whom might such experience be recorded? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.","brand":"Tom McCarthy","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47285010628844,"sku":"9781912559671","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9781912559671.jpg?v=1770397641","url":"https:\/\/intl.allstora.com\/products\/threshold-and-the-ledger","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}