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Möbian Nights: Reading Literature and Darkness

Möbian Nights: Reading Literature and Darkness

Goodhart, Sandor

Paperback

Series: Violence, Desire, and the Sacred, Book 6

PhilosophyLiterary CriticismReligion General

ISBN10: 1501350811
ISBN13: 9781501350818
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: Feb 21 2019
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.02
Height: 0.72 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

I died at Auschwitz, French writer Charlotte Delbo asserts, and nobody knows it. Möbian 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 die. Drawing upon analyses developed by Girard, Foucault, Blanchot, and Levinas (along with examples from Homer to Beckett), Möbian Nights 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.

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