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The first English translation of the essays, lectures, and other
critical writings of the celebrated Austrian poet, novelist, and
public intellectual, one of the most influential postwar writers in
German. The Austrian Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-1973) is one of the
most important postwar writers in German. Her work is enmeshed with
the intellectual and cultural developments of the period: she was
influenced by European modernism in the early 1950s, experienced
the sweeping changes of the 60s, and worked until her death in 1973
on her celebrated and sprawling "Todesarten" (Ways of Death)
project, on the decades following National Socialism. Her poetry
and prose confront what she called "the sickness of our time": the
subtle connection between patriarchal society, catastrophic history
in the form of National Socialism, and the subjugation of the
Other. Even during her lifetime, Bachmann achieved a prominent
position in postwar German-language literature. Interest in her
literary output increased sharply in the early 1980s with the
publication of the first edition of her works, and has been growing
steadily ever since. Bachmann's impact on German literature is
comparable to that of Virginia Woolf on English literature. Just as
an appreciation of Woolf's poetic oeuvre, and that of other women
writers, is impossible without reference to "A Room of One's Own,"
the critical writings of Bachmann enhance our awareness of not only
her own works, but also those of many other writers, philosophers,
and artists. As the only translation of Bachmann's essays,
lectures, speeches, and theoretical texts into English, The
Critical Writings will be a valuable tool for students of
Comparative Literature and German literature and cultural studies.
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