Summary
Ingeborg Bachmann: Malina
In the novel Malina, originally published in German in 1971, Ingeborg Bachmann invites the reader into a world stretched to the very limits of language. The unnamed narrator, a writer from Vienna, is part of a love triangle and, portrayed through the unstable prism of obsession, travels ever deeper through madness, anxiety and genius. Part detective novel, part love story, and part psychoanalytic case study, Ingeborg Bachmann's masterpiece takes us straight into the broken heart of human experience, eros, neurosis, and history.
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