Malina

Malina

🌊Synopsis:
Hello, I am an unknown woman, and I live in Vienna.
I live with Malina and am in love with Ivan.
Malina is just on the other side of a wall, Ivan is on the other end of a phone line.
I die with Malina, and live with Ivan.
I often have nightmares about my father.
I occasionally imagine the legendary past of this land.
I scare away the journalists who come to interview me, who come to kiss my hand.
I am a sad clowness like Pierrot.
Today, I am still here, in my Hungarian Lane, my wide, arcing territory.
But one day, I will disappear, walking into the oldest, strongest wall.
“This is murder.”
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【Editor's Recommendations】
※ The gem of 20th-century German literature, Bachmann's only full-length autobiographical novel, making its Chinese debut.
Ingeborg Bachmann—
A star poet of Group 47, winner of the Georg Büchner Prize and the Austrian State Prize, nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature;
Pioneered the tradition of women's writing in Austria, hailed as "the first popular icon of Austrian literature";
Peter Handke, Thomas Bernhard, and Elfriede Jelinek are considered her successors.
Her planned four-volume series "Ways of Dying" only saw the completion of the first volume, "Malina";
In 1991, Nobel laureate Jelinek adapted it into a screenplay, and the film of the same name starred Isabelle Huppert.
※ "A hurricane of words began to howl in my mind": A dizzying reading experience, a poetic journey of shimmering imagery.
The novel does not focus on plot, but unfolds through stream of consciousness, a first-person account of an Austrian woman writer's life.
Fairytales, dreams, reality, and memories intertwine; dialogues, monologues, interviews, and opera alternate.
A stabbed princess, a demonic father, intellectuals at a hypocritical banquet, a disgraced postman on trial…
Bachmann uses a hurricane of words and absurd, distorted expressionism to sweep the reader's senses away.
※ "We exchanged words of light and darkness": Bachmann's elegy for Celan.
In 1948, Bachmann and Paul Celan secretly fell in love in Vienna.
She was the daughter of a Nazi; he was Jewish, a survivor of forced labor, his parents having died in concentration camps.
For the next twenty-two years, this enduring affair brought them joy, poetry, and immense suffering.
After Celan's death, Bachmann published "Malina" and then also died prematurely. One sank into water, the other escaped into fire.
The semi-autobiographical "Malina" became the lover's only self-confession.
※ "This is the graveyard of murdered daughters" — A radical statement on the plight of women.
Upon its publication in 1971, "Malina" immediately became a German bestseller.
However, critics initially dismissed the book as merely exposing the author's chaotic private life and worrying mental state.
It wasn't until the 1980s that people discovered the work's deeper intentions: seeing the potential for political change within private life.
The work has been established as one of the classics of women's literature.
※ Designed by the renowned young designer Xi He, including three exquisite hand-drawn maps.
Full cover laser perforated, printed on pearlescent paper, a delicate combination of flowers and butterflies, snakes and hearts;
Includes three exquisite hand-drawn maps, allowing you to wander through Vienna on paper, following the protagonist's monologue.
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【Celebrity Recommendations】
The wisest and most important female writer born in our country.
—Thomas Bernhard
Before "feminism" even existed, Bachmann had already radically defined the female condition, which is astonishing.
—Elfriede Jelinek
Bachmann was the first popular icon of Austrian literature.
—Franzobel
"Malina" is on par with the best works of Virginia Woolf and Samuel Beckett.
—The New York Times Book Review
Bachmann's perspective is so original, as if she added a new letter to the alphabet.
—The Guardian
A feminist classic.
—The Paris Review

2024-01-01

广西师范大学出版社

wild spring

480

9787559865137