Now a New Directions book, the legendary novel that is “equal to the best of Virginia Woolf and Samuel Beckett” (
New York Times Book Review
)
In
Malina,
originally published in German in 1971, Ingeborg Bachmann invites the reader into a world stretched to the very limits of language. An unnamed narrator, a writer in Vienna, is torn between two men: viewed, through the tilting prism of obsession, she travels further into her own madness, anxiety, and genius.
Malina
explores love, "deathstyles," the roots of fascism, and passion.