The Bound Man

Ilse Aichinger wrote her early stories from 1948 to 1952; amongst them is the famous "Mirror Story" which won the Prize of the Gruppe 47. In these stories, Aichinger strongly opposes the repression of death and war in the years after World War II. She turns the ideology of success which was prevalent at the time upside down by claiming that only the conscious examination of threat, destruction and farewell would make an intense experience of the present possible.

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  • Publisher: FISCHER Taschenbuch
  • Release: 01.11.1991
  • ISBN: 978-3-596-11042-1
  • 120 Pages
  • Series: Ilse Aichinger, Werke in acht Bänden (Taschenbuchausgabe)
  • Author: Ilse Aichinger
The Bound Man
Ilse Aichinger The Bound Man
Stefan Moses
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Ilse Aichinger

Ilse Aichinger was born in Vienna on November 1st, 1921. In 1948, she published her novel The Greater Hope about wartime in Vienna. It became one of her most famous early texts. Her novel, her poems and her other prose were translated into many languages and won her many awards, a. o. the Prize of Gruppe 47 in 1952, the Petrarca Prize in 1982, the Franz Kafka Prize in 1983, the Grand Austrian State Prize in 1995 and in 2015, the Grand Art Prize of the State of Salzburg. Ilse Aichinger died on November 11, 2016, at the age of 95.