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War diary : with letters from Jack Hamesh / Ingeborg Bachmann, edited, with an afterword, by Hans Holler, Translated by Mike Mitchell.
- Title
- War diary : with letters from Jack Hamesh / Ingeborg Bachmann, edited, with an afterword, by Hans Holler, Translated by Mike Mitchell.
- Author
- Bachmann, Ingeborg, 1926-1973
- Publication
- London : Seagull Books, 2011.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PT2603.A147 Z4613 2011x | Off-site |
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- Description
- 108 p.; 19 cm.
- Summary
- "Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-73) is recognized as one of the most important novelists, poets and playwrights of postwar German literature. As befitting such a versatile writer, her War Diary is not a day-by-day journal but a series of sketches, depicting the last months of World War II and the first year of the subsequent British occupation of Austria. These articulate and powerful entries--all the more remarkable taking into account Bachmann's young age at the time--reveal the eighteen-year-old's hatred of both war and Nazism as she avoids the fanatics' determination to 'defend Klagenfurt to the last man and the last woman'. The British occupation leads to her incredible meeting with a British officer, Jack Hamesh, a Jew who had originally fled Vienna for England in 1938. He is astonished to find in Austria a young girl who has read banned authors such as Mann, Schnitzler and Hofmannsthal. Their relationship is captured here in the emotional and moving letters Hamesh writes to Bachmann when he travels to Israel in 1946. In his correspondence, he describes how in his new home of Israel, he still suffers from the rootlessness affecting so many of those who lost parents, family, friends and homes in the war. War Diary provides unusual insight into the formation of Bachmann as a writer and will be cherished by the many fans of her work. But it is also a poignant glimpse into life in Austria in the immediate aftermath of the war, and the reflections of both Bachmann and Hamesh speak to a significant and larger story beyond their personal experiences." -- From publisher's website.
- Uniform Title
- Kriegstagebuch. English
- Alternative Title
- Kriegstagebuch.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- German diaries.
- Tagebuch 1944-1945
- Briefsammlung 1946-1947
- Diaries
- Personal narratives
- Personal narratives – German
- Records and correspondence
- Language (note)
- Translated from the German.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Acknowledgements -- War diary -- Letters from Jack Hamesh -- Afterword.
- ISBN
- 9780857420084
- 0857420089
- OCLC
- 758953009
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library