O'Regan, Veronica
"Dieses Spannungsverhältnis, an dem wir wachsen"

Growth and Decay in Ingeborg Bachmann's 'Simultan'.

This book examines the role of the 'utopian' in Bachmann’s second collection of short stories, and reveals the presence of a dialectic, which Bachmann associates with utopian possibilities in her theoretical writings. This book argues that the tendency in some recent studies to characterize the volume as pessimistic in its portrayal of language and reality is unsatisfactory; the Simultan volume testifies, rather, to the fact that Bachmann never lost her utopian belief in the power of a «new» language to transform individual and collective consciousness. VIII,151 Seiten, gebunden (Austrian Culture; Vol. 32/Peter Lang Verlag 2000) Mängelexemplar/near mint