Möbian Nights: Reading Literature and Darkness

by Sandor Goodhart

Book Overview

"I died at Auschwitz," French writer Charlotte Delbo asserts, "and nobody knows it." M bian Nights: Reading Literature and Darkness develops 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.

Challenging customary "aesthetic" assumptions that we write in order not to die, Sandor Goodhart suggests (with Kafka) we write to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501350811
• ISBN13: 9781501350818
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"