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| Original Title: | Malina |
| ISBN: | 0841911894 (ISBN13: 9780841911895) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Ingeborg Bachmann
Paperback | Pages: 244 pages Rating: 4.04 | 2112 Users | 141 Reviews
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Bachmann tells the story of lives painfully intertwined: the unnamed narrator, haunted by nightmarish memories of her father, lives with the androgynous Malina, an initially remote and dispassionate man who ultimately becomes an ominous influence. Plunging toward its riveting finale, Malina brutally lays bare the struggle for love and the limits of discourse between women and men.
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| Title | : | Malina |
| Author | : | Ingeborg Bachmann |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 244 pages |
| Published | : | June 15th 1990 by Holmes & Meier Publishers (first published 1971) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. European Literature. German Literature. Literature |
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Ratings: 4.04 From 2112 Users | 141 ReviewsArticle Containing Books Malina
"The name alone suffices to be in the world."Malina is one of those novels that feels completely natural to me, arising almost like an organism, without pretense or premeditated designs. Its easy playful voice keeps me reading despite the somber themes that run underneath. It is a particularly difficult novel for me to describe, as it tackles many serious topics (war, post-war, time, history, personal relationships, men and women) yet when you pull back, its main thrust is elusive. What is thisOne of the most confusing, frustrating but mesmerizingly fascinating books ever.I could and should write tomes on this as Bachmann was the subject of my postgrad research.Stay tuned to this station.
There's something poetic in this book. Not only in the search that the main character seems to follow but just in its language... There's something poetic in how the words born, in how they are simply united; there's something poetic in the way that Ingeborg Bachman sounds because you can hear it when you read it, I don't know how to explain it but I never felt before that the author was next to me, reading her sounds to my ear...
Malinalove it or hate it.It is a very introverted, dense novel, thus I can see why someone might grow to dislike it. Full of self-doubt, anguish and some humiliation, I find it so emotional and personal at times it is hard to bear. I still have an odd (perhaps, even creepy) feeling as though I know this narrator myself and any time I walk her Ungargassenland, I can't help but look up and wonder...is she there? is she writing one of her mad letters? Would I meet anyone like that? Who knows, I
Men and women seem to receive this book very differently - which makes me wonder if that was part of her intention. I am looking forward to reading it a second time.
Why "Malina" Has no Message for FeministsThe English translation of "Malina" ends with an academic essay, intended to explain the book's cultural and historical references, and also to help readers who may be confused by the book's experimental form and content. The first purpose is reasonable for North American readers; the second is ridiculous. The book is hermetic, desperately unhappy, remorseless, disconsolate, dissociative, and ambiguously realistic, mythic, and allegorical. Those should
Ingeborg Bachmann writes:In the Psychological Institute in the Liebiggasse we always drank tea or coffee. I knew a man there who always used shorthand to record what everyone said, and sometimes other things besides. I don't know shorthand. Sometimes we'd give each other Rorschach tests, Szondi tests, TAT, and would diagnose each other's character and personality, we would observe our performance and behavior and examine our expressions. Once he asked how many men I had slept with, and I
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