The Critical Writings of Ingeborg Bachmann by Ingeborg Bachma... - 9781571139443

The Critical Writings of Ingeborg BachmannAuthor(s): Ingeborg Bachmann, Karen R Karen R Achberger, Karl Ivan Solibakke\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, United States\nImprint: Camden House Inc\nISBN-13: 9781571139443, 978-1571139443\nSynopsis\nThe first English translation of the essays, lectures, and other critical writings of the celebrated Austrian poet, novelist, and public intellectual, one of the most influential postwar writers in German.\n\nThe Austrian Ingeborg Bachmann [tel] is one of the most important postwar writers in German. Her work is enmeshed with the intellectual and cultural developments of the period: she was influenced by European modernism in the early 1950s, experienced the sweeping changes of the 60s, and worked until her death in 1973 on her celebrated and sprawling \""Todesarten\"" (Ways of Death) project, on the decades following National Socialism. Her poetry and prose confront what she called \""the sickness of our time\"": the subtle .