Book of the Week: Malina by Ingeborg Bachmann 
In the wholly remarkable Malina, originally published in German in 1971, Bachmann draws the reader into a world stretched to the very limits of language. An unnamed narrator, a writer in Vienna, is torn between two men, who may or may not exist outside her head. 

>>Malina continues to reveal new possibilities in literature and new impossibilities in living." —read Thomas's review. 

>>Read an extract. 
>>Detonating the container of consciousness. 
>>A singular woman adrift. 
>>"We could call her happiness self-deception."
>>"I don't understand how one can live."
>>Reading Ingeborg Bachmann. 
>>Is Malina "the truest portrait of female consciousness since Sappho"?
>>"The outrageous has become the everyday."
>>Malina was made into a film by Werner Schroeter in 1991. 
>>As a piece of physical theatre. 
>>A brief biography of Bachmann. 
>>Books by Bachmann.
>> Fun fact: Bachmann appears as Maria in Thomas Bernhard's last novel, Extinction.