"If We Had the Word." Ingeborg Bachmann Views and Reviews, Edited by Gisela Brinker-Gabler and Markus Zisselsberger

Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-1973) was one of the most significant postwar women writers in German language literature and remains one of the most important writers of our time. Over thirty years after her death, her work continues to attract the critical attention of a wide general readership as well as scholars from many different disciplines, not least because her poems, short stories, critical essays, radio plays and novels deal with issues that continue to haunt contemporary culture: history, gender, exile, war, memory and the Holocaust.
The multifaceted, interdisciplinary approaches to Ingeborg Bachmann’s work make this collection appealing and relevant to both critics and scholars of Ingeborg Bachmann and to everyone interested in critical theory and contemporary culture and literature.