{"product_id":"malina-9780811228725","title":"Malina","description":"\u003cem\u003eMalina\u003c\/em\u003e invites the reader on a linguistic journey, into a world that stretches the very limits of language with Wittgensteinian zeal and Joycean inventiveness, where Ingeborg Bachmann ventriloquizes--and in the process demolishes--Proust, Musil, and Balzac, and yet filters everything through her own utterly singular idiom. \u003cem\u003eMalina\u003c\/em\u003e is, quite simply, unlike anything else; it's a masterpiece.\u003cbr\u003e In \u003cem\u003eMalina\u003c\/em\u003e, Bachmann uses the intertwined lives of three characters to explore the roots of society's breakdown that lead to fascism, and in Bachmann's own words, \"it doesn't start with the first bombs that are dropped; it doesn't start with the terror that can be written about in every newspaper. It starts with relationships between people. Fascism is the first thing in the relationship between a man and a woman, and I attempted to say that here in this society there is always war. There isn't war and peace, there's only war.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Directions Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/25\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780811228725\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 283\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 1.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2019 pg. 10\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Ingeborg Bachmann","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36644317921436,"sku":"9780811228725","price":16.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_4f958a73-ef4a-4e52-8c8a-e0c17cec6d7f.jpg?v=1603858340","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/malina-9780811228725","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}