Ingeborg Bachmann Books

This is collection of the stories written by a distinguished Austrian author who died in 1973. Reading these stories entails abandoning the terms of one's own comfort. The author's relentless vision demands that readers allows themselves to be hypnotised, taken over by her repetitive cadences and burning images of grief and loss. And yet, in the beauty of her images there is a tremendous affirmation of the world.

First published by Zephyr Press in 2006, Darkness Spoken is the most complete volume of Ingeborg Bachmann's poetry in English and German. Considered one of the premiere poets of her generation, Bachmann's various awards include the Georg Büchner Prize, the Berlin Critics Prize, the Bremen Award, and the Austrian State Prize for literature. Darkness Spoken collects her two celebrated books of poetry, as well as the early and late poems not collected in book form. This volume also contains 129 poems released from Bachmann's archives that had never been translated before 2006. Twenty-five of them also appeared in German for the first time. Continued research by Peter Fikins on Bachmann's writing since 2006 as well as his current work on Bachmann's biography (forthcoming, Yale University Press), has afforded him the opportunity to draw even closer to Bachmann's poems and appreciate more deeply their context and meaning. For this second revised edition, roughly a quarter of the poems collected here have benefitted from revisions in word choice for the purposes of greater clarity, better syntax or rhythm, or in a few instances, corrections in punctuation and of interpretive errors. A few lacunae in the German have also been corrected, allowing this volume to remain the most complete edition of Bachmann's poetry.

Two novellas on oppression of women by men. In the first novella, the wife of a sadistic psychoanalyst leaves him to find freedom with her brother in the Egyptian desert, while the second is on an actress being exploited by a playwright. By an Austrian writer

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.

A brief diary from the time of the Second World War, accompanied with letters written to Ingeborg Bachmann by a British soldier named Jack Hammesh, who Bachmann writes about in the diary.

This collection features the first English translation of critical writings by a renowned Austrian poet and novelist, highlighting his impact as a leading postwar German intellectual. The essays and lectures delve into his profound insights on literature and society, showcasing his influential perspectives and contributions to the cultural landscape of the time.

Ingeborg Bachmann (1926–1973) schuf mit ihrer Lyrik, Essayistik und ihrer umfangreichen Prosa eines der eindrucksvollsten schriftstellerischen Werke ihrer Generation. Die vierbändige Ausgabe versammelt alle wichtigen Texte in neuer Ausstattung.

Bilder aus dem Leben und Texte aus dem Werk Ingeborg Bachmanns