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Ingeborg Bachmann (1926–1973)

Author of Malina

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About the Author

Ingeborg Bachmann was born in the Austrian town of Klagenfurt, in 1926. As a young women she moved to Vienna to study philosophy. After World War II, she moved to West Berlin, where her first volume of poetry, Die gestundete Zeit (On Borrowed Time, 1953), received the prestigious Group 47 prize. show more Bachmann also published fiction, radio plays, and songs. Like most writers who lived under Nazism, Bachmann often distrusts her society and its institutions. Her rebellion, however, has not taken the form of political activism but of a romantic longing for the absolute. Her verse, notable for its strong rhythms, usually employs traditional forms. She excels in describing landscapes. show less
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Works by Ingeborg Bachmann

Malina (1971) 937 copies, 15 reviews
The Thirtieth Year: Stories (1961) 365 copies, 5 reviews
Three Paths to the Lake (1972) 221 copies, 6 reviews
Sämtliche Gedichte (1978) 83 copies
Sämtliche Erzählungen (1978) 81 copies
War Diary (2010) — Author — 77 copies, 3 reviews
Die gestundete Zeit (1983) 65 copies
Invocación a la Osa Mayor (1983) — Author — 64 copies, 1 review
Der gute Gott von Manhattan (1958) — Author — 39 copies
The Book of Franza (1978) 29 copies
Die Fähre: Erzählungen (1987) 26 copies
Werke (1978) 26 copies
The Radio Family (2011) 25 copies, 1 review
The Honditsch Cross (1983) 22 copies
In the Storm of Roses: Selected Poems (1986) 19 copies, 1 review
Verzamelde verhalen (2021) 17 copies
Doodsoorzaken (2023) 16 copies
Requiem für Fanny Goldmann (1992) 16 copies
Undine geht : Erzählungen (1976) 14 copies
Briefe einer Freundschaft (2004) 14 copies
Poesie (1992) 13 copies, 1 review
Poetische Korrespondenzen. Vierzehn Beiträge. (1997) — Author — 12 copies
Selected prose and drama (1998) 12 copies
Ingeborg Bachmann (2008) 9 copies
Suhrkamp BasisBibliothek : Bachmann : Malina (2004) — Text — 9 copies
Ein Ort für Zufälle (1992) 9 copies
Poesía completa (1995) 8 copies, 1 review
Últimos poemas (1999) 8 copies, 1 review
Werke 2 Erzählungen (1993) 8 copies
Meistererzählungen. (1972) 5 copies
"Todesarten"-Projekt (1995) 5 copies
Die Gedichte (1980) 5 copies
Gedichte und Erzählungen (1993) 5 copies
Kolmekümnes aasta (2023) 5 copies
Otuzuncu Yas (2006) 5 copies
Frankfurt Dersleri (2020) 5 copies
Een stap naar Gomorra (1982) — Author — 4 copies
Das Buch Goldmann (2017) 4 copies
Radyo Oyunlari (2017) 3 copies
Dar Zaman (2007) 3 copies
Luogo eventuale (1992) 3 copies
Alles 2 copies
Bu Tufandan Sonra (1990) 2 copies
Liebe! (2002) 2 copies
Libro del deserto (1999) 2 copies
Kritische Schriften (2005) 2 copies
Bröd och salt (1976) 2 copies
Enigma: Selected Poems (2011) 2 copies
Ingeborg Bachmann (1994) 2 copies
The Young Milord (1978) 2 copies
Undine geht 1 copy
briefe_an_felician (1991) 1 copy
Spontano 1 copy
Lírica amorosa alemã moderna — Author — 1 copy
Symultanka 1 copy
Dziennik wojenny (2015) 1 copy
Básně 1 copy
Gedichte, 1 Cassette (1995) 1 copy
Poèmes (1992) 1 copy
El tiempo postergado (1991) 1 copy
Die Zikaden 1 copy
Days in White Poems (2003) 1 copy

Associated Works

Spells of Enchantment: The Wondrous Fairy Tales of Western Culture (1991) — Contributor — 605 copies, 5 reviews
World Poetry: An Anthology of Verse from Antiquity to Our Time (1998) — Contributor — 499 copies, 2 reviews
The Art of the Tale: An International Anthology of Short Stories (1986) — Contributor — 381 copies, 3 reviews
Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness (1993) — Contributor — 376 copies, 2 reviews
The Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry (1996) — Contributor — 344 copies
The Penguin Book of Women Poets (1978) — Contributor — 317 copies
Deutsche Gedichte (1966) — Contributor, some editions — 137 copies
Natura Morta: A Roman Novella (2001) — Translation of Poems, some editions — 89 copies, 3 reviews
Gods and Mortals: Modern Poems on Classical Myths (2001) — Contributor — 74 copies, 2 reviews
After Every War: Twentieth-Century Women Poets (2004) — Contributor — 35 copies
Elsewhere (Poets in the World) (2014) — Contributor — 31 copies, 1 review
Hörspiele (1961) — Contributor — 16 copies
Deutsche Erzählungen / German Stories I (1975) — Contributor — 14 copies
Deutsche Lyrik : Gedichte seit 1945 (1961) — Contributor — 11 copies, 1 review
Deutsche Erzählungen aus zwei Jahrzehnten (1967) — Contributor — 7 copies
Phantastisches Österreich (1976) — Contributor, some editions — 7 copies
Briefe (1999) — Contributor — 3 copies
Turmalin Wirklichkeit eines Traumes, Wien (2000) — Author — 2 copies
Violanta [Deutsche Oper, 6-II-2026] (2026) — Contributor — 1 copy
Dark Ages Clasp the Daisy Root #2 — Contributor — 1 copy

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53 reviews
A soberba adaptação de Malina roteirizada por Elfriede Jelinek estreava há exatos 30 anos na Alemanha e eu sinceramente não sei do qual gosto mais, se do livro ou do filme.
O livro tem uma estrutura interessante: dividido em três partes, a primeira dá conta do envolvimento da narradora (obviamente com tintas autobiográficas da Bachmann) com Ivan, na segunda parte (e seu ápice narrativo) é um desenrolar contínuo e febril sobre as questões arquetípicas que envolvem o passado show more austríaco (especialmente a contemporaneidade/conterraneidade da narradora com Hitler) e finalmente a terceira parte é sobre o apagamento e invisibilidade feminina e o porquê de Malina ser o personagem título.
Na versão fílmica tudo isso é trazido de forma brilhante com um ponto que me fez gostar ainda mais: o leitmotiv do fogo sempre em cena, indicando também a causa da morte da própria Ingeborg Bachmann, o apagamento da escritora diante da chama sempre presente.
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Bachmann szereplői nagyon nem érzik jól magukat. Valami kizökkentette őket az időből. Eltévedtek benne. Ezek a történetek olyanok, mint a labirintus*: a tudat elnyújtott kacskaringóiban bolyongunk egy rémes belső terem felé, és véletlenül nincs nálunk a fonál. Ez nem baj – én szeretem az olyan írásokat, amik nem érzik jól magukat. Szoktam is mondani a szerzőknek: gyertek, vágjátok belém a szuronyt! Forgassátok is meg! Kínozzatok! Dobjatok a pöcegödörbe! show more Úgyhogy erre a könyvre is látatlanban öt csillagot adtam volna. Talán ez volt a gond. Végig az járt az eszemben, hogy én ezt máshogy írtam volna meg – ami nyilván a legócskább dolog, amit olvasó mondhat, mert erre az az adekvát válasz, hogy akkor nesze, írjad meg máshogy. Meg az is az eszemben járt, hogy a különböző történetek szereplői és szituációi felcserélhetők egymással – hogy tulajdonképpen újra és újra ugyanazt az elbeszélést olvasom. Tudom, ez a monománia, és hát vannak monomán írók. Sőt: vannak eszméletlenül jó monomán írók is. Elfogadom, hogy Bachmann is közéjük tartozik – csak nekem most nem esett jól. Talán szakaszokban kellett volna olvasnom, nem így egyben.

(Az igazság kedvéért tegyük hozzá, mert szeretem a lehúzós kritikát, de az igazságot jobban: két nagyon jó – talán mert konvencionálisabb –, és egy káprázatos novellát azért találtam benne. Az utolsó kisregényt is nagyra értékeltem, csak már jól ki lettem fárasztva előtte.)

* Santarcangeli óta mindenhová labirintusokat vizionálok. De tényleg.
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La obra de Ingeborg Bachmann no sólo representa el compromiso político de su autora sino también una búsqueda incesante de un nuevo lenguaje para encontrar la verdad.
Un grito a quien no quiere condenar el pasado nazi de su país, Austria y un aviso sobre la permanencia en el poder de aquellos que habían provocado esta tragedia.
Y un verso premonitorio que pone la carne de gallina: "Con la mano chamuscada sigo escribiendo sobre la naturaleza del fuego"
Das dreißigste Jahr is a collection of seven short prose pieces all written in the late 1950s. There are two "key themes" that run through all the pieces, in various ways: the unequal relations between men and women, and the moral problem of living in a post-war world. As you would expect (in hindsight) there's a strong feminist sensibility everywhere, but oddly enough Bachmann chose to write four of the seven from an explicitly masculine point of view, and one from a point of view that show more does not bring the narrator's gender into play. Only "Undine goes" and "A step to Gomorrah" have explicitly feminine narrative viewpoints.

All the pieces seem to deal with people who are facing a crucial choice in their lives, but who ultimately don't quite have the courage to take it.

The title story is a miniature version of the classic German form, the Bildungsroman, describing a year in the life of a young man who suddenly realises that he's going to be thirty, and that all the endless possibilities there used to be in his life are condensing into the choices he has already made. It's the most ambitious in the collection in terms of form, switching between third and first person, prose and poetry, bringing in a character "Moll" who turns out to be a composite of all the hero's mediocre friends, and generally hitting us with the full armoury of modernist writing. And it works.

But I think the pieces that will stick in my mind most are the shorter opening and closing stories. The first is a beautiful, but jagged and painful, account of how the terrible experience of war has made it impossible to reconnect with memories of childhood and the comfortable isolation of small-town life; the last is Undine's delightfully lyrical, angry, sad and ultimately affectionate farewell rant directed at humans in general and men named Hans in particular. Definitely something you should have on hand for the Hans in your life...
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