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Bad Words: Selected Short Prose (The German List)

Ilse Aichinger
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“I now no longer use the better words.”
Ilse Aichinger (1921–2016) was one of the most important writers of postwar Austrian and German literature. Born in 1921 to a Jewish mother, she survived World War II in Vienna, while her twin sister Helga escaped with one of the last Kindertransporte to England in 1938. Many of their relatives were deported and murdered.

Those losses make themselves felt throughout Aichinger’s writing, which since her first and only novel, The Greater Hope, in 1948, has highlighted displacement, estrangement, and a sharp skepticism toward language. By 1976, when she published Bad Words in German, her writing had become powerfully poetic, dense, and experimental. This volume presents the whole of the original Bad Words in English for the first time, along with a selection of Aichinger’s other short stories of the period; together, they demonstrate her courageous effort to create and deploy a language unmarred by misleading certainties, preconceived rules, or implicit ideologies.

My language and I:
I. My green donkey ; My father made from straw ; The mouse ; The arrival ; The crossbeam
II. Memories for Samuel Greenberg ; Port sing ; Five proposals ; Only Joshua ; The Jouet sisters ; My language and I

Bad words:
I. Bad words ; Stains ; Doubts about balconies The connoisseurs of western columns ; The guest ; Ambros ; Dover ; Privas ; Albany ; The forgetfulness of St Ives ; Rahel's clothes ; Cemetery in B. ; Wisconsin and apple rice
II. Hemlin ; Surrender ; Salvage ; Galy Sad ; L. to Muzot ; Sur le bonheur ; Consensus ; Insurrection ; Queens

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0857424769
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9780857424761
kindle Asin:
B08D6HCWT4

Bad Words: Selected Short Prose (The German List)

Ilse Aichinger
4.12/5 (10 ratings)
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“I now no longer use the better words.”
Ilse Aichinger (1921–2016) was one of the most important writers of postwar Austrian and German literature. Born in 1921 to a Jewish mother, she survived World War II in Vienna, while her twin sister Helga escaped with one of the last Kindertransporte to England in 1938. Many of their relatives were deported and murdered.

Those losses make themselves felt throughout Aichinger’s writing, which since her first and only novel, The Greater Hope, in 1948, has highlighted displacement, estrangement, and a sharp skepticism toward language. By 1976, when she published Bad Words in German, her writing had become powerfully poetic, dense, and experimental. This volume presents the whole of the original Bad Words in English for the first time, along with a selection of Aichinger’s other short stories of the period; together, they demonstrate her courageous effort to create and deploy a language unmarred by misleading certainties, preconceived rules, or implicit ideologies.

My language and I:
I. My green donkey ; My father made from straw ; The mouse ; The arrival ; The crossbeam
II. Memories for Samuel Greenberg ; Port sing ; Five proposals ; Only Joshua ; The Jouet sisters ; My language and I

Bad words:
I. Bad words ; Stains ; Doubts about balconies The connoisseurs of western columns ; The guest ; Ambros ; Dover ; Privas ; Albany ; The forgetfulness of St Ives ; Rahel's clothes ; Cemetery in B. ; Wisconsin and apple rice
II. Hemlin ; Surrender ; Salvage ; Galy Sad ; L. to Muzot ; Sur le bonheur ; Consensus ; Insurrection ; Queens

Coda. Snow
Format:
Pages:
pages
Publication:
Publisher:
Edition:
Language:
ISBN10:
0857424769
ISBN13:
9780857424761
kindle Asin:
B08D6HCWT4

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