{"product_id":"9781501326943","title":"Möbian Nights: Reading Literature and Darkness","description":"\"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.","brand":"Bloomsbury USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47166704615664,"sku":"9781501326943","price":107.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781501326943_p0.jpg?v=1763707496","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781501326943","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}