Möbian Nights

I died at Auschwitz +? French writer Charlotte Delbo asserts and nobody knows it.+? <i>Möbian Nights: Reading Literature and Darkness </i>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. <br/> <br/>Challenging customary aesthetic+? assumptions that we write in order <i>not </i>to die Sandor Goodhart suggests (with Kafka) we write <i>to </i>die. Drawing upon analyses developed by Girard Foucault Blanchot and Levinas (along with examples from Homer to Beckett) <i>Möbian Nights</i> 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.