Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-1973) was two of the major writers of the twentieth century: a poet who turned away from poetry, and a prose writer whose great project remained unfinished at her death. Letters to Felician came, both chronologically and conceptually, just before the fork in the road which di[...]

A moody and mournful meditation on the death and life of a writer, by another of her generationA Trip to Klagenfurt is the story of a pilgrimage. Only days after the burial of Ingeborg Bachmann, writer Uwe Johnson journeyed to her gravesite in the Austrian city of Klagenfurt, where Bachmann had grow[...]