Improbable Journeys
Translated from the German by Geoff Wilkes
The essays in this volume record journeys which are improbable in every sense. Writing in Viennese cafés on whatever paper is to hand, Ilse Aichinger travels into history, into memory, into the present and into her imagination. She traces the life story of her great grandfather Dziadzio, recalls the cramped apartment in post-war Vienna where she sat at a little whitepainted kitchen table and started writing The Greater Hope, ponders the limits of what could be comprehended after the 11th of September 2001, and Pictures Astrid Lindgren's Pippi Longstocking riding on Vienna's No. 71 tram, although she's anarchic enough to be barely imaginable '…
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Weitere Autoren: Wilkes, Geoff (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-3-8260-6642-9
- EAN: 9783826066429
- Produktnummer: 30106835
- Verlag: Königshausen & Neumann
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 212 S.
- Originaltitel: Unglaubwürdige Reisen
- Masse: H22.6 cm x B14.1 cm x D1.8 cm 292 g
- Gewicht: 292
Über den Autor
The translator, Geoff Wilkes, is a Senior Lecturer in German Studies at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. He has previously translated Ilse Aichinger's Die größere Hoffnung and Film und Verhängnis. Blitzlichter auf ein Leben into English for K&N.
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