Malina: A Novel

Ingeborg Bachmann

Lynne Rienner Pub, 1990 - Fiction - 244 pages

Malina, tells the story of the triangle that forms between herself, the shadowy Malina, and Ivan, the man with whom she is involved. Plunging toward its riveting finale, Malina lays bare the struggle for love and the limits of discourse between women and men.

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First published in Austria in 1971, this work gained quick acceptance into the canon of modern Austrian and women's literature. It concerns a triangle consisting of the narrator (an unnamed woman ...

Contents

• The Cast: 1
• First Chapter Happy with Ivan: 12
• Second Chapter The Third Man: 113

About the author

Born in Klagenfurt, Austria on June 25, 1926, Ingeborg Bachmann studied law and philosophy at the universities of Insbruck, Graz, and Vienna. She received her degree, writing a dissertation on Heidegger, from the University of Vienna in 1950. After graduating she became a scriptwriter at Radio Rot-Weis-Rot in Vienna, and in 1953 won the Gruppe 47 Prize for her first collection of poems Die gestundete Zeit (The Mortgage on Borrowed Time). Over the next many years, she produced numerous collections of poetry, fiction, and radio plays, including Anrufung des GroAAen BA[a¬A3/4ren (Invocation of the Great Bear) [poetry], the collections of stories Das dreiAAigse Jahr (The Thirtieth Year) and Simultan, and the novel Malina. Green Integer has previously published her early work Letters to Felician.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Malina: A Novel; Modern German voices series; Portico paperbacks
• Author: Ingeborg Bachmann
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Lynne Rienner Pub, 1990
• Original from: the University of California
• Digitized: Jun 25, 2007
• ISBN: 0841911924, 9780841911925
• Length: 244 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Literary