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Bad Words: Selected Short Prose (The German List), Aichinger, Ilse, Very Good Bo
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Very Good
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- ISBN
- 9780857424761
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Seagull Books
ISBN-10
0857424769
ISBN-13
9780857424761
eBay Product ID (ePID)
234244815
Product Key Features
Book Title
Bad Words : Selected Short Prose
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Short Stories (Single Author), General
Publication Year
2018
Genre
Fiction
Book Series
The German List Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.1 in
Item Weight
14.1 Oz
Item Length
0.9 in
Item Width
0.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
That this text holds its sonic magic in translation is a testament both to the extraordinary ears and poetic wisdom of the translators and to Aichinger herself. Each word feels both surprising and inevitable: in English as in German. This surety of voice is rare.
Dewey Decimal
833.914
Synopsis
" 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., A moving work of fiction from one of the most important writers of postwar Austrian and German literature. Born in 1921 to a Jewish mother, Ilse Aichinger (1921-2016) 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.
LC Classification Number
PT2601.I26
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