 A dizzying invitation to explore the poetry and prose of German author Ingeborg Bachmann...McCarthy’s work is an invigorating and inspiring incantation: Readers will not only marvel at how the author reads but also at his ability to articulate that experience into something both erudite and accessible. —Kirkus Reviews  Ingeborg Bachmann (25 June 1926 – 17 October 1973) was a highly acclaimed Austrian poet and author. She won numerous literary prizes and played a vocal role in the cultural and political reshaping of German society after World War II. In 1963, she was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature, and since her death she has come to be regarded as one of the twentieth century’s most important writers. On the eve of Bachmann's centenary year, novelist Tom McCarthy unpacks twelve lines of a single Bachmann poem, "Bread and Salt," published in 1953. Latching onto two of its central terms — the eponymous threshold and ledger — he takes off on a fascinating line of flight: through the work of Franz Kafka, David Lynch, Anne Carson, Sappho, and Shakespeare, ultimately arguing for the centrality of Bachmann's vision to the very act of literature itself. Jamieson Webster joins Tom McCarthy at 192 Books for a discussion and celebration of The Threshold and the Ledger. See event page for details. Visit the Notting Hill Editions page on our website to learn more about their other books.NYRB distributes selected titles published by Notting Hill Editions. You are receiving this message because you signed up for email newsletters from NYRB. You can choose the types of mailings you wish to receive: |
miércoles, 10 de septiembre de 2025
Tom McCarthy on Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann
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