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Ilse Aichinger - After Me, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2027

After Me

Av Ilse Aichinger

181 kr

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When someone pushes the bed out of the hall, when you see that the sky is turning green, and if you want to spare the vicar a funeral sermon, then it is time for you to get up, quietly, as children get up when the morning light starts to glint through the shutters, secretly, so the nurse doesn’t see—and quick!Like the short fiction of Silvina Ocampo and Bruno Schulz, Aichinger’s chilling and surreal stories will haunt you long after reading. Her deft experiments with the language used and corrupted by the Nazis seem almost to bend time—reversing it and compressing it—so that possible future and past selves live among ghosts, the alienated, and the displaced. Like tricks of the eye, a crime seen from a distance, or an unlikely coincidence, Aichinger’s singular fiction—heavily influenced by cinema—questions the solidity of existence.A member of the hugely influential Gruppe 47, which included Ingeborg Bachmann, Paul Celan, Uwe Johnson, and Günter Grass, Aichinger is one of the last of her peers to find world fame. Now available in Anne Posten’s deft translation, After Me collects the greatest of Aichinger’s short works.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2027-02-23
  • Mått: 127 x 203 x undefined mm
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 160
  • Förlag: New Directions Publishing Corporation
  • Medarbetare: Yoko Tawada
  • ISBN: 9780811239530
  • Översättare: Anne Posten
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Ilse Aichinger (1921–2016) was born in Vienna, Austria. Her mother was a Jewish pediatrician and her father was a Catholic schoolteacher. After their parents divorced, Ilse and her identical twin sister Helga were raised primarily by their maternal grandmother. (Chillingly, in 1933, a young Joseph Mengele knocked on their door and expressed interest in meeting the twins but was shooed away.) During the war, the sisters were persecuted as "half-Jews": Ilse was forced into manual labor in a button factory while Helga escaped on the last Kindertransport out of Vienna. Aichinger hid her mother in her room at the Hotel Metropol for the duration of the war. Their grandmother and their mother's siblings were deported and murdered. A member of the famed Gruppe 47, Aichinger, who is credited as the first writer to use the phrase “concentration camp,” won numerous awards including the Nelly Sachs Prize; she rejected the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. Anne Posten is a literary translator based in Berlin. Her translations include: High as the Waters Rise by Anja Kampmann (shortlisted for the National Book Award); Walks with Walser by Carl Seelig (published by New Directions); Transfigured Night by Libuše Moníková; and This Place Holds No Fear by Monika Held. Yoko Tawada was born in Tokyo in 1960, moved to Hamburg when she was twenty-two, and then to Berlin in 2006. She writes in both Japanese and German, and has published several books—stories, novels, poems, plays, essays—in both languages. She has received numerous awards for her writing including the Akutagawa Prize, the Adelbert von Chamisso Prize, the Tanizaki Prize, the Kleist Prize, the Goethe Medal, and the National Book Award. New Directions publishes her story collections Where Europe Begins (with a Preface by Wim Wenders) and Facing the Bridge, as well her novels The Naked Eye, The Bridegroom Was a Dog, Memoirs of a Polar Bear, The Emissary, Scattered All over the Earth, Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel, Suggested in the Stars, and forthcoming in autumn 2025 is Archipelago of the Sun, the final novel in her Scattered trilogy.

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