The Book of Franza & Requiem for Fanny Goldmann by Bachmann, Ingeborg (9780810127548)

The Book of Franza & Requiem for Fanny Goldmann

by Bachmann, Ingeborg , Filkins, Peter

Paperback - English

These unfinished novels were intended to follow her widely acclaimed Malina in a Proustian cycle to be entitled Todesarten, or Ways of Dying. Through the tales of two women in postwar Austria, Bachmann explores the ways of dying inflicted on women by men, and upon the living by history, politics, religion, family, and the self.

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ADDITIONAL INFO

ISBN

0810127547

EAN

9780810127548

Publisher

NORTHWESTERN UNIV PR

Publication Date

31 Aug 2010

Pages

264

Weight (kg)

0.32

Dimensions (cm)

21.3 x 13.7 x 1.5

About Author

Born in Klagenfurt, Austria on June 25, 1926, Ingeborg Bachmann studied law and philosophy at the universities of Insbruck, Graz, and Vienna. She received her degree, writing a dissertation on Heidegger, from the University of Vienna in 1950. After graduating she became a scriptwriter at Radio Rot-Weis-Rot in Vienna, and in 1953 won the Gruppe 47 Prize for her first collection of poems Die gestundete Zeit (The Mortgage on Borrowed Time). Over the next many years, she produced numerous collections of poetry, fiction, and radio plays, including Anrufung des GroAAen BA[a¬A3/4ren (Invocation of th