{"product_id":"9781912559671","title":"The Threshold and the Ledger","description":"\u003cp\u003eA timely exploration of Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann by Booker-shortlisted author Tom McCarthy. Since her untimely death in 1973, Ingeborg Bachmann has come to be regarded as one of the 20th 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Notting Hill Editions","offers":[{"title":"Tom \/ McCarthy","offer_id":55767734026613,"sku":"9781912559671","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0289\/5334\/6096\/files\/9781912559671_e74102df-768f-4580-b061-fb9194d70ab6.jpg?v=1763817778","url":"https:\/\/goldenharebooks.pro\/products\/9781912559671","provider":"Golden Hare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}