Bound Man, and Other Stories

Ilse Aichinger was born in Vienna. Her published works comprise prose, poems, narratives, dialogues and radio plays. Since 1977 she has been a member of the German Academy for Language and Literature. She is the recipient of many literary awards including the Austrian State Prize for European Literature.

'I remember reading The Bound Man many years ago. The story has never left me. Reading it now, along with the other stories, I am again caught in what feels like the confusion of shock, where time is fluid and the material world is an uncertain, unstable place, full of fragile hope and loss. I experience the shifts and startling turns in these stories, and their imagery, as unexpected blows to the heart.' Jayne Parker

• 1. The Bound Man 2. The Opened Order 3. The Advertisement 4. The Private Tutor 5. Angel in the Night 6. Story in a Mirror 7. Moon Story 8. Window Entertainment 9. Ghosts on the Lake 10. Speech under the Gallows