{"product_id":"the-threshold-and-the-ledger-paperback","title":"The Threshold and the Ledger - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTom McCarthy\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA timely exploration of Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann by Booker-shortlisted author Tom McCarthy.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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 \u003ci\u003ethreshold\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eledger\u003c\/i\u003e -- and takes off on a line of flight: through the work of Franz Kafka, David Lynch, Anne Carson, Sappho and Shakespeare. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCan writing be understood as an experience of the threshold, a limit- or boundary- state? A condition of ecstasy or \u003ci\u003eec-stasis\u003c\/i\u003e, standing outside of oneself? With identity ruptured and surpassed, how and by whom might such experience be recorded? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTom McCarthy\u003c\/b\u003e is a novelist whose work has been translated into more than twenty languages and adapted for cinema, theatre, and radio. In 2013 he was awarded the inaugural Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction. His first novel, \u003ci\u003eRemainder\u003c\/i\u003e, won the 2008 Believer Book Award; his third, \u003ci\u003eC\u003c\/i\u003e, was a 2010 Booker Prize finalist, as was his fourth, \u003ci\u003eSatin Island\u003c\/i\u003e, in 2015. He is also author of the study \u003ci\u003eTintin and the Secret of Literature\u003c\/i\u003e, and of the essay collection \u003ci\u003eTypewriters, Bombs, Jellyfish\u003c\/i\u003e. His latest novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Making of Incarnation\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in 2021. McCarthy has held Visiting Professorships at the Royal College of Art London, Columbia University New York and Städelschule Frankfurt. Born in Scotland, he is now a Swedish citizen, and lives in Berlin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 80\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.2 x 6.8 x 4.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 09, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43157456551999,"sku":"9781912559671","price":17.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/kC4_ViNM2i9781912559671.webp?v=1776981411","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/the-threshold-and-the-ledger-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}