{"product_id":"the-threshold-and-the-ledger","title":"The Threshold and The Ledger","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Tom McCarthy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher: Notting Hill Editions (2025)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003ethreshold\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eledger\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e — and takes off on a line of flight: through the work of Franz Kafka, David Lynch, Anne Carson, Sappho and Shakespeare.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCan writing be understood as an experience of the threshold, a limit- or boundary- state? A condition of ecstasy or \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eec-stasis\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, standing outside of oneself? With identity ruptured and surpassed, how and by whom might such experience be recorded?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\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\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ingram","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44164406771811,"sku":"9781912559671","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/8655\/1139\/files\/thethreshold.jpg?v=1778022694","url":"https:\/\/woodlandpatternbookcenter.com\/products\/the-threshold-and-the-ledger","provider":"Woodland Pattern","version":"1.0","type":"link"}