Malina
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Now a New Directions book, the legendary novel that is “equal to the best of Virginia Woolf and Samuel Beckett” (New York Times Book Review)
In Malina, originally published in German in 1971, Ingeborg Bachmann invites the reader into a world stretched to the very limits of language. An unnamed narrator, a writer in Vienna, is torn between two men: viewed, through the tilting prism of obsession, she travels further into her own madness, anxiety, and genius. Malina explores love, "deathstyles," the roots of fascism, and passion.Ingeborg Bachmann
INGEBORG BACHMANN was an Austrian poet and author, regarded as one of the major voices of German-language literature in the 20th century.
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Philip Boehm
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Philip Boehm has translated more than thirty novels and plays by German and Polish writers, including Herta Müller, Franz Kafka, and Hanna Krall. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, as well as numerous awards, including the Helen & Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize and the Ungar German Translation Award from the American Translators Association. He also works as a theater director and playwright.
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