{"product_id":"mbian-nights-sandor-goodhart-9781501350818","title":"Möbian Nights: Reading Literature and Darkness","description":"\"I died at Auschwitz, +? French writer Charlotte Delbo asserts, \"and nobody knows it.+? \u003ci\u003eMöbian Nights: Reading Literature and Darkness \u003c\/i\u003edevelops a new understanding of literary reading: that in the wake of disasters like the Holocaust, death remains a premise of our experience rather than a future. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eChallenging customary \"aesthetic+? assumptions that we write in order \u003ci\u003enot \u003c\/i\u003eto die, Sandor Goodhart suggests (with Kafka) we write \u003ci\u003eto \u003c\/i\u003edie. Drawing upon analyses developed by Girard, Foucault, Blanchot, and Levinas (along with examples from Homer to Beckett), \u003ci\u003eMöbian Nights\u003c\/i\u003e proposes that all literature works \"autobiographically+?, which is to say, in the wake of disaster; with the credo \"I died; therefore, I am+?; and for which the language of topology (for example, the \"Möbius strip+?) offers a vocabulary for naming the \"deep structure+? of such literary, critical, and scriptural sacrificial and anti-sacrificial dynamics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sandor Goodhart\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1501350811\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501350818\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/21\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.02lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.72d","brand":"Sandor Goodhart","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44717831422207,"sku":"9781501350818","price":49.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_46099b43-f41f-44c0-9b6e-5c5f9cdcecf2.jpg?v=1705689588","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/mbian-nights-sandor-goodhart-9781501350818","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}