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Aichinger’s unique voice captures the complexity of sound, silence, and the unsaid, making her collection essential for those drawn to thoughtful and artful literature.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"bad-words-selected-short-prose-by-ilse-aichinger-9781803090467","title":"Bad Words – Selected Short Prose","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA moving work of fiction from one of the most important writers of postwar Austrian and German literature.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBorn 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 \u003cem\u003eKindertransporte\u003c\/em\u003e 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, \u003cem\u003eThe Greater Hope\u003c\/em\u003e, in 1948, has highlighted displacement, estrangement, and a sharp skepticism toward language.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBy 1976, when she published \u003cem\u003eBad Words\u003c\/em\u003e in German, her writing had become powerfully poetic, dense, and experimental. 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From a wide-ranging literary career that encompassed all genres, \u003cem\u003eSquandered Advice\u003c\/em\u003e was Aichinger’s sole poetry collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book gathers poems written over several decades, yet Aichinger’s poetic voice remains remarkably consistent. She frequently addresses us or a third party, often in the imperative, with many poems written in the form of a question. Even though they use free verse throughout, the poems are still tightly structured, often around sounds or repetition, using spare language.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePhrases are often fragmentary, torn off, and juxtaposed as if in a collage. Isolated and haunting, the images are at times everyday, at other times surreal, suggesting dreams or memories. 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