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Original Title:	Malina
ISBN:	0841911894 (ISBN13: 9780841911895)
Edition Language:	English

Malina

Ingeborg Bachmann

Paperback | Pages: 244 pages

Rating: 4.04 | 2112 Users | 141 Reviews

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Title	:	Malina
Author	:	Ingeborg Bachmann
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 244 pages
Published	:	June 15th 1990 by Holmes & Meier Publishers (first published 1971)
Categories	:	Fiction. European Literature. German Literature. Literature

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Bachmann tells the story of lives painfully intertwined: the unnamed narrator, haunted by nightmarish memories of her father, lives with the androgynous Malina, an initially remote and dispassionate man who ultimately becomes an ominous influence. Plunging toward its riveting finale, Malina brutally lays bare the struggle for love and the limits of discourse between women and men.

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9/10Certainly not the easiest book for me to get back in to reading with :P It is at times frustrating, at times intentionally very vague and oblique (as regards the titular Malina in particular), whilst at times so startlingly clear in its presentation of the main character's thoughts - her neurotic nature, her desperate emotional dependency on Ivan, her doubts, all the weight of the world crushing on her - that the book can become exhausting (even more so because the stream of consciousness

holy hell. this book will live and die with me, remain with me forever.

4.5/5Whenever I would pick this up, a line or two of a poem kept ringing through my mind. The title, no matter how hard I tried, would not come to mind. Finally, I took to Google, and after a couple of searches found what I was looking for. The poem is "Translations" by Adrienne Rich, and a couple of lines match the tone of Malina incredibly well:Certain words occur: enemy, oven, sorrowenough to let me knowshe's a woman of my timeobsessedwith Love, our subject:we've trained it like ivy to our

It was murder! It took me five months to finish this novel of internalised female pain. I had to stop reading after a couple of pages to recover strength when I felt the swamp of passive negativity pull me down until I was choking desperately. Why did I finish it?Maybe I have a streak of masochism in me, like the narrator of the novel? Maybe I secretly identify with her loss of identity in a world where she can only exist as a foil for the men that navigate it around her? Maybe I am stubborn to

Reading Malina was a submersion into a mind, but unlike other narratives that follow a stream of consciousness through the missed connections and random construction of human thinking, Bachmann strings together a convincing and engaging view of that world. At times, reading the book requires labor, but much of it inspires the type of horrifying interest you sometimes get watching a major pileup on the freeway. I recommend this book to those who like their fiction on heavy on the psychology and

What an incredible writer. What an uncomfortable read. Now this is what I would call a mega depressing and yet spectacularly well written novel. It should be read in all the womyn/gender studies or critical literature classes as it is a fascinating exploration of patriarchy/fascism through the POV of a woman losing her reality. Some heavy material throughout but seriously this book deserves to be more well known and read than it is, worldwide.

I had to hop onto the university library database and read an academic/literary analysis to really appreciate this sucker. I was lucky to stumble across a fascinating and enlightening article by Alexandra Kurmann (2016) entitled, "What is Malina? Decoding Ingeborg Bachmann's Poetics of Secrecy." Kurmann's article (which I believe is based on her dissertation, and now a book) describes a recent discovery that has cast new insight into Bachmann's novel. In translating Hebrew texts into English it