Ingeborg Bachmann

Mark Anderson

A work of sharp, unforgettable images and an irresistible narrative. Here is the story of lives painfully intertwined: the unnamed narrator, haunted by nightmarish memories of her father, lives with the androgynous Malina, an initially remote and dispassionate man who ultimately becomes an iminous influence. Plunging toward its riveting finale, MALINA brutally lays bare the struggle for love and the limits of discourese between women and men.

A Novel

Malina

Greatly expanded bilingual edition of the 1994 Marsilio edition, Songs in Flight.

The Collected Poems

Darkness Spoken

Ingeborg Bachmanns Ruhm ist groß. Als ihr Roman Malina 1971 erschien, sprach die Kritik von einem »radikal unzeitgemäßen, märchenhaften, eigensinnigen, elitären, ja sogar amüsanten und vornehm verschlossenen Buch«, von einem »rätselhaften Liebesroman«, »über die unendlichen Möglichkeiten der  Seele«, »einem Zeugnis für die Obdachlosigkeit des Gefühls, selbst in der Liebe«. Malina ist wohl die denkbar ungewöhnlichste Dreiecksgeschichte: zwei der Beteiligten sind in Wahrheit eine Person, ›sind eins‹, und doch ist jede Person ›doppelt‹. Das Buch handelt von nichts anderem als von Liebe, es zeigt die Einsamkeit dessen, der liebt.

The Description for this book, In the Storm of Roses: Selected Poems by Ingeborg Bachmann, will be forthcoming.

Selected Poems

In the Storm of Roses

The Thirtieth Year

These two fragments of novels, Ingeborg Bachmann's only untranslated works of fiction, were intended to follow the widely acclaimed Malina in a cycle to be entitled Todesarten, or Ways of Dying. Although Bachmann died before completing them, The Book of Franza and Requiem for Fanny Goldmann stand on their own, continuing Bachmann's tradition of using language to confront the disease plaguing human relationships. Through the tales of two women in postwar Austria, Bachmann explores the ways of dying inflicted upon the living from outside and from within, through history, politics, religion, family, gender relations, and the self.Bachmann's allegiance to the twin muses of memory and history, as well as her perception of fascism as not being limited to the context of the war but also existing within the intimate relations of everyday life between husbands and wives, brothers and sisters, psychiatrists and patients' are supremely evident in The Book of Franza. Here, Bachmann follows a woman who escapes from a sanitorium and, after years of silence, sends her brother a cryptic telegram. Rightly suspecting that she has fled her sadistic husband -- a renowned Austrian psychiatrist whose intimate relations have merged with his studies of concentration camps -- her brother finds her in their childhood home. Together they travel to Egypt, where Franza slowly begins to regain her bearings. But Franza's desire to cleanse herself by journeying into the heart of the desert's void ends in tragedy, as she becomes the victim of a horrible act of violence.Unlike Franza, who attempts to flee her past but fails, the heroine of Requiem for Fanny Goldmann makes no attempt to escape her history. Thisnovel tells of the demise of a Viennese actress who is manipulated by a younger, ambitious playwright to advance his career. Deception follows disloyalty; the final treachery comes when the playwright portrays her in a novel, which secures his fame and, in Fanny's eyes, robs her of her future. Caught in a perpetual stasis, Fanny suffers in total obscurity, as her present is stolen from her as well.Whether analyzing the place where the self begins and the power of history ends or the ways in which women are forced to be complicit in their mistreatment at the hands of men, Bachmann's critical approach to the human psyche is unparalleled. Mesmerizing and profound, The Book of Franza and Requiem for Fanny Goldmann constitute the final evidence that Ingeborg Bachmann is the most important female German-language writer of the postwar period.

The Book of Franza and Requiem for Fanny Goldmann

Michael Mitchell

Hans Höller

Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann (1926–73) is recognized as one of the most important novelists, poets, and playwrights of postwar German literature. As befitting such a versatile writer, her War Diary is not a day-by-day journal but a series of sketches, depicting the last months of World War II and the first year of the subsequent British occupation of Austria. These articulate and powerful entries—all the more remarkable taking into account Bachmann's young age at the time—reveal the eighteen-year-old's hatred of both war and Nazism as she avoids the fanatics' determination to “defend Klagenfurt to the last man and the last woman.” The British occupation leads to her incredible meeting with a British officer, Jack Hamesh, a Jew who had originally fled Vienna for England in 1938. He is astonished to find in Austria a young girl who has read banned authors such as Mann, Schnitzler, and Hofmannsthal. Their relationship is captured here in the emotional and moving letters Hamesh writes to Bachmann when he travels to Israel in 1946. In his correspondence, he describes how in his new home of Israel, he still suffers from the rootlessness affecting so many of those who lost parents, family, friends, and homes in the war. War Diary provides unusual insight into the formation of Bachmann as a writer and will be cherished by the many fans of her work. But it is also a poignant glimpse into life in Austria in the immediate aftermath of the war, and the reflections of both Bachmann and Hamesh speak to a significant and larger story beyond their personal experiences.Praise for the German Edition“A minor sensation that will make literary history. Thanks to the excellent critical commentary, we gain a sense of a period in history and in Bachmann's life that reached deep into her later work. . . . What makes these diary entries so special is . . . the detail of the resistance described, the exhilaration of unexpected peace, the joy of freedom.”—Die Zeit

With Letters from Jack Hamesh

War Diary

Hörspiel

Der gute Gott von Manhattan

A Deal in Dreams; The Cicadas; The Good God of Manhattan (Studies in Austrian Literature, Culture, and Thought)

Three Radio Plays

Vandra tanke, samlade dikter

Det trettionde året

Paul Celan

Brev : samt brevväxlingen mellan Paul Celan och Max Frisch och mellan Ingeborg Bachmann och Gisèle Celan-Lestrange

Pela primeira vez no Brasil, a antologia de uma das maiores vozes da língua alemã no século xx. Edição bilingue. A austríaca Ingeborg Bachmann teria assistido às tropas nazistas marcharem pela sua cidade quando tinha apenas onze anos. A vulgaridade da linguagem do Reich e a desolação causada pela guerra marcaram sua produção. Neste volume com poemas selecionados e traduzidos por Claudia Cavalcanti (que também assina o posfácio), a obra da autora ressurge com toda sua força. Os poemas assombram pelas imagens inusitadas e por uma dicção que, embora pareça por vezes complexa, busca a pureza na representação tanto do mundo exterior quanto de aspectos da interioridade do ser humano. Escritora que a certa altura abandona as profundas inquirições da poesia para se dedicar à ficção, Bachmann parecia saber que a linguagem — esse artefato criado pelo ser humano — pode ser capaz de construir mundos. E também de aniquilá-los.

O tempo adiado e outros poemas

Erzählungen

Das dreißigste Jahr

Max Frisch

Der Briefwechsel

»Wir haben es nicht gut gemacht.«

Ingeborg Bachmann, Paul Celan : der Briefwechsel : mit den Briefwechseln zwischen Paul Celan und Max Frisch sowie zwischen Ingeborg Bachmann und Gisèle Celan-Lestrange

Herzzeit

Aldibereko

Verzamelde verhalen

Ingeborg Bachmann

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