| Record Number |
817700 |
| ISBN |
9780241366240 (paperback) |
| Author |
Bachmann, Ingeborg, 1926-1973 author. |
| Title |
Malina / Ingeborg Bachmann ; translated by Philip Boehm ; introduction by Rachel Kushner. |
| Publisher/Date |
[London] : Penguin Books, 2019. |
| ©1971 |
| Pagination etc. |
xiv, 283 pages ; 20 cm |
| Series |
Penguin modern classics |
| Contents note |
"Originally published in Germary by Suhrkamp Verlag 1971." |
| Summary Note |
A woman in 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. 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. |
| Language note |
Translated from the German. |
| Subject |
Women -- Austria -- Fiction |
| Man-woman relationships -- Austria -- Fiction |
| Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Austria -- Fiction |
| Added Author |
Kushner, Rachel author of introduction, etc. |
| Boehm, Philip translator. |
| Shelf Location |
F BACH |
