Malina (German Edition)

by Ingeborg Bachmann

Overview

Now a New Directions book, the legendary novel that is “equal to the best of Virginia Woolf and Samuel Beckett” (New York Times Book Review)

InMalina,originally published in German in 1971, Ingeborg Bachmann invites the reader into a world stretched to the very limits of language. An unnamed narrator, a writer in Vienna, is torn between two men: viewed, through the tilting prism of obsession, she travels further into her own madness, anxiety, and genius.Malinaexplores love, "deathstyles," the roots of fascism, and passion.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783518371411
Publisher:	Suhrkamp Verlag
Publication date:	02/29/2000
Edition description:	German-language Edition
Pages:	353
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)
Language:	German

About the Author

(1926–1973) is widely regarded as one of the greatest
German-language writers of the twentieth century. Her poems, plays, stories, and only finished novel, Malina, have been championed by Paul Celan, Hannah Arendt, Günter
Grass, Peter Handke, Thomas Bernhard, Christa Wolf, and Elfriede Jelinek.

Philip Boehm is an American playwright, theater director, and the translator of numerous books, including Ingeborg Bachmann's Malina (forthcoming from New Directions).

Rachel Kushner is the bestselling author of The Flamethrowers, Telex from
Cuba, and The Mars Room.

Editorial Reviews

…a psychological thriller of a tormented, existential sort…Bachmann's prose is often lucid and powerful, enlivened by her poetic gifts…The churn of the narrator's mind and the absurdist exchanges between characters earned the novel comparisons to Virginia Woolf and Beckett. This revised translation appears at a time when the book feels quite contemporary. Though even innovative mainstream fiction now being published reads like "A Is for Apple" compared to Malina, there's no question that the book shares a spirit with any and all books about the unsought psychological challenges of being a woman in this world.

The New York Times - John Williams