Research Catalog

Title

The greater hope / Ilse Aichinger ; translated from the German by Geoff Wilkes.

Author

Aichinger, Ilse

Publication

• Würzburg : Königshausen & Neumann, [2016]
• © 2016

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Holdings

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Additional Authors

Wilkes, Geoff (Lecturer in German)

Description

252 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

"Ilse Aichiner was born to a Jewish mother in Vienna in 1921. Prior to 1939 her Aunt Klara waited for the family in London, but only Ilse's twin sister, Helga, escaped on the last 'Kindertransport'. Ilse remained. She survived, and published 'The Greater hope' in 1948. The novel reflects Ilse Aichinger's experience of anti-Semitism as a young woman in Nazi Austria, and through her extraordinary use of language the author not only captures the horror and the humanity of that experience, but also transcends it to offer a profound meditation on a greater hope, the metaphysical perspectives of which surpass the physical trajectories of devastation, deportation and death ... The Afterword to this new translation creates...an original and in-depth analysis of interviews given by Aichinger throughout her life. The Coda to this edition consists of a commentary upon and quotations from a previously unpublished letter from Ilse Aichinger in Vienna to her twin sister, Helga, in London for Christmas 1945"--Back cover.

Uniform Title

Grössere Hoffnung. English

Alternative Title

Grössere Hoffnung.

Subject

Jewish children in the Holocaust > Fiction

Genre/Form

Fiction

Note

• Includes commentary by the translator.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-247).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 3826059212
• 9783826059216

OCLC

• 957509635
• SCSB-12441972

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library