Ingeborg Bachmann, Author, Philip Boehm, Translator, Mark Anderson, Designed by Holmes & Meier Publishers $27.5 (244p) ISBN 978-0-8419-1192-5
This demanding work contains flashes of great beauty and insight but is ultimately marred by Bachmann's cryptic, fragmented prose and internalized story line that is based entirely on the narrator's emotional responses to events conveyed only...
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Ingeborg Bachmann, Author, Peter Filkins, Translator Northwestern University Press $30 (233p) ISBN 978-0-8101-1204-9
When Austrian-born Bachmann died in 1973 after a fire destroyed her Rome apartment, Germanic literature lost an important female literary voice at the height of its powers. Her predecessors were Robert Musil and Elias Canetti, but she infused their...
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Ingeborg Bachmann, Author, Peter Filkins, Translator, Paul Filkins, Translator Marsilio Publishers $40 (337p) ISBN 978-1-56886-009-1
This collection brings to an English-speaking audience virtually the entire poetic output of one of the most important post-war European poets, offering the original German and sensitive translations by poet Filkins. At the time of her death by fire
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Ingeborg Bachmann, Author, Mary F. Gilbert, Translator, Mark Anderson, Translator Holmes & Meier Publishers $29.95 (212p) ISBN 978-0-8419-1070-6
Prize-winning Austrian-born Bachmann ( Malina ; The Thirtieth Year ) has influenced such writers as Max Frisch, Peter Handke, Christa Wolf and Gunter Grass; she died in 1973. Translated into English from the German for the first time, each of the...
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