Ingeborg Bachmann
Austrian poet and prose writer whose collections Borrowed Time and Invocation of the Great Bear won her the Group 47 prize. Her work addresses the aftermath of fascism with philosophical intensity.
Works
- MalinaExistential novel about identity dissolution and male domination in marriage
- Three Paths to the LakeStory collection centered on three women meeting at an Alpine lake in Austria
- The Thirtieth YearCollection of interconnected stories about lives reaching a defining moment
- The Book of FranzaNovel of a European woman's psychological descent after marriage to an Arab diplomat
- Simultaneous
- Borrowed Time
- Invocation of the Great Bear