Malina: Ingeborg Bachmann (Penguin Modern Classics)

Ingeborg Bachmann

ISBN 10: 0241366240 / ISBN 13: 9780241366240

Published by Penguin, 2019

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Gebraucht - Gut Am Einband die Ecke gestoßen -'An intense, courageous novel, equal to the best of Virginia Woolf and Samuel Beckett' The New York TimesPart detective novel, part love story, part psychoanalytic case study, Malina is a staggering portrait of a writer trying to tell her own story in a world dominated by men.'I was subordinate to him from the beginning, and I must have known early on that he was destined to be my doom'A woman in postwar Vienna walks a tightrope between the two men in her life. There is her lover Ivan, beautiful and unavailable, who obsesses her. And there is Malina, the civil servant with whom she shares an apartment: reserved, fastidious, exacting, chillingly calm. As the balance of power between them starts to shift, she feels her fragile identity unravelling, gradually revealing the dark, bruised heart of her past. 304 pp. Englisch, Deutsch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Malina: Ingeborg Bachmann (Penguin Modern Classics)
• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0241366240
• ISBN 13: 9780241366240
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Gut
• Weight: 226 grams

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Synopsis

Here is the story of lives painfully intertwined.

An unnamed narrator is haunted by nightmarish memories of her father and desperate for the attentions of her lover. Her only companion is the androgynous Malina with whom she lives, an initially remote and dispassionate man who ultimately becomes an ominous influence. Plunging towards its riveting finale, Malina lays bare the struggle for love and the limits of discourse between men and women.

Part detective novel, part love story, part psychoanalytic case study, Bachmann's 1971 masterpiece brings us to the broken heart of human experience, eros, neurosis and history.