Ingeborg Bachmann

Darkness Spoken is the most complete volume of Ingeborg Bachmann's poetry in English and German. Considered one of the premiere poets of her generation, Bachmann's various awards include the Georg Büchner Prize, the Berlin Critics Prize, the Bremen Award, and the Austrian State Prize for literature. Darkness Spoken collects her two celebrated books of poetry, as well as the early...

Magnetic, psychologically unsparing stories of desire and estrangement, from one of postwar Europe's greatest writers. Where does fascism begin? It doesn't begin with the first bombs that were dropped. It begins in relationships between people. Fascism lies at the root of the relationship between a man and a woman... Ingeborg Bachmann's short fiction—each piece a razor-sharp feminist masterpiece, as urgent...

Ingeborg Bachmann (1926–1973) is recognised as one of post-war German literature's most important novelists, poets, and playwrights. Influenced by Hans Weigel and the legendary literary circle Gruppe 47, Bachmann gained international renown for her poems, short stories, and novels, and won numerous awards for her work. Nearly twenty years after her death, during an estate sale in Vienna, fifteen episodes...