{"product_id":"mobian-nights","title":"Möbian Nights","description":"\u003cp\u003e“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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing Plc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54250588897624,"sku":"9781501350818","price":45.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781501350818.jpg?v=1743747333","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/mobian-nights","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}