The Bound Man, and Other Stories (Short Story Index Reprint Series) (English and German Edition)

Aichinger, Ilse

Literature & Fiction

Ayer Co. Pub

“I now no longer use the better words.” Ilse Aichinger (1921–2016) was one of the most important writers of postwar Austrian and German literature. Born in 1921 to a Jewish mother, she survived World War II in Vienna, while her twin sister Helga escaped with one of the last Kindertransporte to England in 1938. Many of their relatives were deported and murdered. Those losses make themselves felt throughout Aichinger’s writing, which since her first and only novel, The Greater Hope, in 1948, has highlighted displacement, estrangement, and a sharp skepticism toward language. By 1976, when she published Bad Words in German, her writing had become powerfully poetic, dense, and experimental. This volume presents the whole of the original Bad Words in English for the first time, along with a selection of Aichinger’s other short stories of the period; together, they demonstrate her courageous effort to create and deploy a language unmarred by misleading certainties, preconceived rules, or implicit ideologies.

Bad Words: Selected Short Prose (The German List)

Seagull Books

The first English translation of a major work of postwar German poetry. &nbsp; Austrian writer Ilse Aichinger (1921-2016) was a member of the Gruppe 47 writers' group, which sought to renew German-language literature after World War II. From a wide-ranging literary career that encompassed all genres, Squandered Advice was Aichinger's sole poetry collection. The book gathers poems written over several decades, yet Aichinger's poetic voice remains remarkably consistent, frequently addressing us or a third party, often in the imperative, with many poems written in the form of a question. Even though they use free verse throughout, the poems are still tightly structured, often around sounds or repetition, using spare language. Phrases are often fragmentary, torn off, and juxtaposed as if in a collage. Isolated and haunting, the images are at times everyday, at other times surreal, suggesting dreams or memories. The tone ranges from reassuring and gentle to disjointed and disturbing, but the volume was carefully composed by the author into an integral whole, not chronological but following its own poetic logic. This new translation makes Aichinger's critically acclaimed book, which has inspired poets in the German-speaking world for decades, available to English-language readers for the first time.

Squandered Advice (The German List)

Poetry

Logbridge-Rhodes, First Edition, 1983. Hand-written dedication by Allen. I bought this book in a secondhand store, but it is still in excellent condition. No markings.

Selected Poetry and Prose (English and German Edition)

History & Criticism

Logbridge-Rhodes

Selected Poetry & Prose (English and German Edition)

Selected poetry & prose

Bad Words: Selected Short Prose (The Seagull Library of German Literature)

Short Stories & Anthologies

Salzburger Bachmann Edition: »halten wir einander fest und halten wir alles fest!«. Der Briefwechsel Ingeborg Bachmann - Ilse Aichinger und Günter Eich

Eich, Günter

BACHMANN, INGEBORG

Suhrkamp Verlag AG

Ilse Aichinger Werke (Fischer Taschenbücher Allgemeine Reihe)

FISCHER Taschenbuch

Die Grossere Hoffnung (German Edition)

Contemporary

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