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The first English translation of the essays, lectures, and other critical writings of the celebrated Austrian poet, novelist, and public intellectual, one of the most influential postwar writers in German.
List of contents
Acknowledgments
Notes on Translation
Introduction
1: Autobiographical Writings and Intimate Reflections
Biographical Note
Group 47
Attempt at an Autobiography
On Giuseppe Ungaretti
Admittedly
Witold Gombrowicz
2: Philosophy
Commentary
The Vienna Circle: Logical Positivism-Philosophy as Science
Ludwig Wittgenstein-A Chapter of the Most Recent History of Philosophy
Logic as Mysticism
The Sayable and the Unsayable
3: Modern Literature
Commentary
Franz Kafka: Amerika
Into the Millennium
The Man Without Qualities
The World of Marcel Proust: Views of a Pandemonium
Playing Watten and Other Writings (On Thomas Bernhard)
An Attempt
Bertolt Brecht: Preface to an Anthology of His Poetry
The Bell Jar / The Quintessential Horror (On Sylvia Plath)
4: Visual Rhetoric and Poetics
Commentary
What I Saw and Heard in Rome
The Love of God and Affliction: The Path of Simone Weil
On the Trail of Language
To What End Poems?
On the Genesis of the Title "In Apulia"
The Poem Addressing the Reader
5: Music
Commentary
Wondrous Music
Music and Poetry
Genesis of a Libretto
Otello
Hommage à Maria Callas
Notes on the Libretto
6: The Frankfurt Lectures and Other Speeches
Commentary
Truth is Within Human Reach (Acceptance Speech for the Radio Play Prize of the German Union of the War Blind)
The First Frankfurt Lecture: Problems of Contemporary LiteratureI. Questions and Pseudo-Questions
The Second Frankfurt Lecture: On Poems
The Third Frankfurt Lecture: Concerning the I
The Fourth Frankfurt Lecture: Names
The Fifth Frankfurt Lecture: Literature as Utopia
On Receiving the Anton Wildgans Prize
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Ingeborg Bachmann; edited and translated by Karen R. Achberger and Karl Ivan Solibakke
Summary
The first English translation of the essays, lectures, and other critical writings of the celebrated Austrian poet, novelist, and public intellectual, one of the most influential postwar writers in German.
