{"product_id":"mobian-nights-reading-literature-and-darkness-9781501326936","title":"Mobian Nights: Reading Literature and Darkness","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Sandor Goodhart\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Philosophy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45085223813271,"sku":"9781501326936","price":21685.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781501326936.webp?v=1767098832","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/mobian-nights-reading-literature-and-darkness-9781501326936","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}