Malina

Malina - Ingeborg Bachmann

Set in postwar Vienna, this novel moves between a love story, a detective novel and a psychoanalytic case study. At its centre is a woman trying to tell her own story while living between two men: Ivan, the lover she cannot stop wanting, and Malina, the civil servant with whom she shares an apartment.

"I was subordinate to him from the beginning, and I must have known early on that he was destined to be my doom".

Ivan and Malina

Ivan is beautiful and unavailable, and her fixation on him shapes the rhythm of her days. Malina stands close by in a very different way - reserved, precise and chillingly calm.

A voice under pressure

As the balance of power shifts, her already fragile sense of self begins to come apart. What surfaces is not only the strain of the present, but also the dark, bruised core of her past in a world dominated by men.

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Inne książki autora: Ingeborg Bachmann