Ingeborg Bachmann Boeken

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.

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.

Výbor z lyriky rakouské básnířky. Vybrala, přeložila a ediční poznámku napsala Michaela Jacobsenová.

Bilder aus dem Leben und Texte aus dem Werk Ingeborg Bachmanns

Korespondence mezi Ingeborg Bachmannovou a Paulem Celanem začíná v roce 1948, kdy se poprvé setkávají, a vrcholí devět let poté, kdy se znovu setkávají v „čase srdce“. Jejich dialog se potýká s temnou dobou Celanova ochromení, přičemž končí až ve druhé polovině šedesátých let, kdy oba partneři mají před sebou jen pár let života. V kontextu německy psané lyriky po druhé světové válce se jejich jména často objevují vedle sebe. I když netvořili tradiční životní či autorskou dvojici, hráli v životě i tvorbě jeden pro druhého klíčovou roli. Vyměňují si dopisy, které volají po jiném čtení. Oba jsou přesní a v zoufalství i lásce riskují. Jejich vzájemný vztah je naplněn napětím, střídají se v důvěrnosti a distanci. Celan touží po oporách, zatímco Bachmannová se v každodenní válce snaží bojovat sama. V této korespondenci se odehrává boj o jazyk a vymezení vlastního území. Oba se snaží uniknout frázím, které jsou vlastní jejich zemím, a jejich boj o slova je náročný. Tato fascinující korespondence vyžaduje odstup, aby nezaplnila mysl slepou skvrnou zoufalství.