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"Malina" by Ingeborg Bachmann is the story of a very complicated love triangle. The narrator's inner battle tears her apart — a heartbreaking tale!
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The 1971 novel from Bachmann's "Death Styles" series caused rare and vast disagreement among critics over how it was meant to be interpreted. The radically poetic three-part story was nevertheless a success.
A disdainful dinner gets out of control. Mother, daughter and son pass the verdict on the absent father. This swan song about idyllic family life garnered Birgit Vanderbeke the prestigious Ingeborg Bachmann Prize.
Revealing the suffering of the "bourgeois outsider," the Swiss poet and novelist is considered one of the 19th century's great European literati whose works are highly relevant today.
A tragic love story poetically told, Lenz's tale of an affair between an English teacher and her 18-year-old student captures life in a small seaside village and reflects Germany's own post-war growing pains.