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The Threshold and the Ledger

By (author) Tom McCarthy

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A 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 twentieth centuryâ€™s most important writers. Â Unpacking a single Bachmann poem, novelist Tom McCarthy latches onto two of its central terms â€” the eponymousÂ thresholdÂ andÂ ledgerÂ â€” 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 orÂ ec-stasis, standing outside of oneself?Â With identity ruptured and surpassed, how â€“ and by whom â€“ might such experience be recorded? Â Appearing on the eve of Bachmannâ€™s centenary year, McCarthyâ€™s bookÂ argues for the centrality of her vision to the very act of literature itself. Â Ingeborg BachmannÂ (25 June 1926 â€“ 17 October 1973) was an Austrian poet and author. She is regarded as one of the major voices ofÂ German-language literature in the 20th century. In 1963, she was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Â

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