Leslie Morris
"Ich suche ein unschuldiges Land": Reading history in the poetry of Ingeborg Bachmann (Studies in contemporary German literature)
Tubingen: Stauffenburg Verlag, 2001. Studien zur deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur/Studies in Contemporary German Literature, Volume 9. First edition. 3860572091 124 pages.
Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.75" x 8.75", is like new.
"The study situates Bachmann's entire poetic work within an historical, political, and literary contex and "reads" history in Bachmann's poetry by examining the ways in which the fascist past is constructed and remembered by the poet. The book examines Bachmann's poetry not as a journey towards silence, but rather as a loquacity that expresses the questions and uncertainties of writing in the German language after Auschwitz. The search for the "unschuldiges Land" of the book's title (a citation from Bachmann's translation of the Italian poet Giuseppe Ungaretti) is enacted in the ruined landscape of history that pervades Bachmann's poems."