Overview

Full Product Details

9780241366240

Table of Contents

Reviews

A portrait, in language, of female consciousness, truer than anything written since Sappho's Fragment 31. Once you're in, you're in ... You're racing along, deep in the rhythms of the narrator's thoughts, which are bone-true and demonically intelligent -- Rachel Kushner, author of THE MARS ROOM If I was permitted to keep one book only it would be Malina. Malina has everything -- Claire-Louise Bennett, author of POND A writer of genius * The New York Times * Rare and strong * Los Angeles Times * It seems in Malina there is nothing Bachmann cannot do with words * New York Review of Books * A passionate tour de force * Village Voice *

A passionate tour de force * Village Voice * It seems in Malina there is nothing Bachmann cannot do with words * New York Review of Books * Rare and strong * Los Angeles Times * A writer of genius * The New York Times *

Author Information

Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-1973) was an icon of postwar literature in Europe. A poet and a philosopher, she wrote radio plays, short stories, essays and a single novel universally recognized as her masterwork, Malina. Born in 1926 in Klagenfurt, Austria, Bachmann was the daughter of a Nazi party member. She rose to prominence in the 1950s with two collections of poems that grapple with what she considered to be the jarring dissonance of writing poetry in German ""after Auschwitz"". She steadily produced poetry and philosophical essays, as well as co-writing two operas and a ballet, and becoming politically involved with Heinrich Boll, Gunter Grass and Uwe Johnson against the Vietnam War. She was the constant subject of interviews, documentaries, and dissertations, and featured the front covers of Der Spiegel. She won all the major German and Austrian literary awards, including the prestigious Georg Buchner prize. But she was a naturally shy person and, sick of the sustained attention to her life and work, she left Austria for Ischia, then Naples, then Munich, Zurich, Berlin and finally Rome. In her final years she became dependent on alcohol and sedatives; she died in a fire in her bedroom in 1973, which police concluded was caused by a lit cigarette. Since her death she has been recognized as a significant influence on such writers as G nter Grass, Max Frisch, Christa Wolf, and Peter Handke. The annual Ingeborg Bachmann Prize is one of the most important awards for literature in the German language.

Tab Content 6

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

Countries Available