Literature Suspends Death

This is the first book-length study of how three important European thinkers-Kierkegaard, Kafka and Blanchot-use the Binding of Isaac to illuminate the sacrificial situation of the literary writer. Danta shows that literature plays a vital and heretical role in these three writers'' highly idiosyncratic accounts of the Akedah. His claim is twofold: firstly, that all three authors choose to respond...