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I sleep, but my heart wakes,says the Song of Songs. The other nightnames the sleepless night we spend in dreams.From The Interpretation of Dreams to Finnegans Wake, many of the great writing projects of the first half of the twentieth century articulate experiences of waking in the very depths of sleep, where no Ican declare itself present though the heart still beats. After World War II, in the cold light of the closure of the age of dreambooks, Beckett and Blanchot discover with new clarity, and new fatigue, that what wakes when the Isleeps doesn't sleep when the Iwakes.Revisiting Freud's argument that the dream is a form of writing, The Other Night looks at how life becomes literature in this wakefulness. Though we seem to be seeing things in our dreams, we are actually confronted with a kind of writing. This writing is not in our power, and yet it is ours. We are responsible for it in the same strange way that we are responsible for our lives.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Other Night
• Subtitle: Dreaming, Writing, and Restlessness in Twentieth-Century Literature
• Author: Herschel Farbman
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 162
• EAN: 9780823228652
• ISBN: 0823228657
• ID: 04940879
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Weight: 376 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 140 × 23 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. January 2009

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