{"product_id":"the-other-night-herschel-farbman-9780823228669","title":"The Other Night: Dreaming, Writing, and Restlessness in Twentieth-Century Literature","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"I sleep, but my heart wakes,\" says the Song of Songs. \"The other night\" names the sleepless night we spend in dreams. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eThe Interpretation of Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eFinnegans Wake\u003c\/i\u003e, many of the great writing projects of the first half of the twentieth century articulate experiences of waking in the very depths of sleep, where no \"I\" can declare itself present though the heart still beats. After World War II, in the cold light of the closure of the age of dreambooks, Beckett and Blanchot discover with new clarity, and new fatigue, that what wakes when the \"I\" sleeps doesn't sleep when the \"I\" wakes. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRevisiting Freud's argument that the dream is a form of writing, \u003ci\u003eThe Other Night \u003c\/i\u003elooks at how life becomes literature in this wakefulness. Though we seem to be seeing things in our dreams, we are actually confronted with a kind of writing. This writing is not in our power, and yet it is ours. We are responsible for it in the same strange way that we are responsible for our lives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Herschel Farbman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0823228665\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780823228669\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fordham University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/03\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 162\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.60d","brand":"Herschel Farbman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49096761049343,"sku":"9780823228669","price":33.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-other-night-herschel-farbman-9780823228669","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}