Book · 1971 · Fiction

Malina

Name: Malina
Author: Ingeborg Bachmann

New Directions · 283 pages

★ 6.1 editorial score

In a Vienna apartment a woman without a name loves Ivan and lives with Malina, and her interior life comes apart. Bachmann writes private ruin and Austria's buried fascism as the same catastrophe.

Medium

Novel

Subject

Romantic relationships Gender relations Vienna

Setting

Vienna

Time

1971

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