Written when Ingeborg Bachmann was only eighteen, The Honditsch Cross, her second-longest completed work of prose, is a historical novella set during the final days of the Napoleonic occupation of Austria in 1813.
A young theology student, returning from Vienna to his family home in Carinthia, finds the invading troops stationed there, led by a despotic officer, who has been exploiting and terrorizing his family and friends. He is immediately thrown into the center of the conflict, torn between defending his homeland, the pull of physical desire, and the pursuit of his theological studies...
In this gripping work, Bachmann begins to explore themes that will pre-occupy her for the rest of her writing career: complex notions of nationality and patriotism, the roles and rights of women in patriarchal societies, the meaningless destruction of war and its aftermath, and the bitter moments of disillusionment that lead to intellectual maturity
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"Equal to the best of Virginia Woolf and Samuel Beckett." -- The New York Times Book Review "Bachmann's vision is so original that the effect is like having a new letter of the alphabet." -- The Guardian "Austrian writer Bachmann (1926-1973), who's best known for her 1971 novel Malina, wrote this evocative and surprising novella of nationalism and its follies when she was 18, near the end of WWII. ... Bachmann's historical tale is elevated by clear-eyed insights into the impossible standards set for women and the toxic effects of groupthink. It's an intriguing window into the early development of a master." -- Publishers Weekly
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Höhe: 221 mm
Breite: 138 mm
Dicke: 35 mm
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978-0-8112-3856-4 (9780811238564)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-1973) is widely regarded as one of the greatest German-language writers of the twentieth century. Her poems, plays, stories, and only finished novel, Malina, have been championed by Paul Celan, Hannah Arendt, Guenter Grass, Peter Handke, Thomas Bernhard, Christa Wolf, and Elfriede Jelinek. Tess Lewis is a writer and translator from French and German.
