A Trip to Klagenfurt
Subtitle: In the Footsteps of Ingeborg Bachmann
Contributors: Damion Searls (Translator)
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: January 1, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780810117969
Subjects: Biography: general; Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; Johnson, Uwe - Prose & Criticism; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; German; Biography/Autobiography; Literary; Biography & Autobiography / Literary; Bachmann, Ingeborg,; 1926-1973
Description: "The great Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann died in Rome but was buried in Klagenfurt, the city of her childhood. Only days later, Uwe Johnson made a pilgrimage to her grave site and to Klagenfurt itself, which Bachmann had always promised to show him. Johnson re-creates her presence by layering the cultural, physical, and historical landscape of the city - from its picturesque lake and totemic dragon to a personal visit from Hitler during Bachmann's childhood - with Bachmann's letters, interviews, and published writings. The result is a biographical montage that explores the vast forces behind a single extraordinary life. A Trip to Klagenfurt illuminates the writers' friendship as well as Johnson's entire generation."--BOOK JACKET.