Ingeborg Bachmann
Malina: A Novel.
Holmes & Meier, 1990. Portico Paperbacks. Second printing. Translation by Philip Boehm of "Malina" (Suhrkamp, 1971), with an afterword by Mark Anderson. 9780841911895 244 pages.
Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.25", shows light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright.
"In "Malina," originally published in German in 1971, Ingeborg Bachmann invites the reader into a world stretched to the very limits of language. An unnamed narrator, a writer in Vienna, is torn between two men: viewed, through the tilting prism of obsession, she travels further into her own madness, anxiety, and genius. Malina explores love, "deathstyles," the roots of fascism, and passion."