{"product_id":"the-threshold-and-the-ledger-by-tom-mccarthy-9781912559671","title":"The Threshold and the Ledger","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA timely exploration of Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann by Booker-shortlisted author Tom McCarthy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSince her untimely death in 1973, Ingeborg Bachmann has come to be regarded as one of the twentieth century's most important writers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eUnpacking 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIngeborg Bachmann (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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47643593146604,"sku":"9781912559671","price":24.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/1765c64041b45b2c8543d9fc9681d622.jpg?v=1779225692","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-threshold-and-the-ledger-by-tom-mccarthy-9781912559671","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}