![]() Though even innovative mainstream fiction now being published reads like “A Is for Apple” compared to Malina, there’s no question that the book shares a spirit with any and all books about the unsought psychological challenges of being a woman in this world. Lucid and powerful. And it’s a love triangle, though a triangle most accurately drawn with dotted lines, given that it’s debatable how many of its members are real.This revised translation appears at a time when the book feels quite contemporary. In place of Wittgenstein’s language as city, Malina creates a vision of Vienna as language, one might even say as mind: to what extent it may be feminine, masculine, or otherwise is impossible to discern.Įnigmatic, yet piercing: equal to the best of Virginia Woolf and Samuel Beckett.Ī psychological thriller of a tormented, existential sort. It seems in Malina there is nothing Bachmann cannot do with words. Rewarding and highly recommended.Ī variation on the detective novel: Malina’s first-person narrator proceeds from the 'universal prostitution' of Vienna to the proximate causes of her destruction. ![]() Dense, compelling, often weirdly funny, a dark fairy tale told as a murder mystery. ![]() Bachmann's only novel-set in Vienna and first published in 1971-takes on the vexed struggle between the sexes in a decaying city.
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