Malina
  • Published: 27 June 2019
  • ISBN: 9780241366240
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $24.99

Malina

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A stunning feminist classic from one of the great European postwar intellectuals, published in the UK for the very first time

'I was subordinate to him from the beginning, and I must have known early on that he was destined to be my doom'

A woman in Vienna walks a tightrope between the two men in her life. There is her lover Ivan, beautiful and unavailable, who obsesses her. And there is Malina, the civil servant with whom she shares an apartment: reserved, fastidious, exacting, chillingly calm. As the balance of power between them starts to shift, she feels her fragile identity unravelling, gradually revealing the dark, bruised heart of her past.

Part detective novel, part love story, part psychoanalytic case study, Bachmann's 1971 masterpiece brings us to the broken heart of human experience, eros, neurosis and history.

Introduced by Rachel Kushner.
  • Published: 27 June 2019
  • ISBN: 9780241366240
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $24.99
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Praise for Malina

A writer of genius

The New York Times

Rare and strong

Los Angeles Times

It seems in Malina there is nothing Bachmann cannot do with words

New York Review of Books

A passionate tour de force

Village Voice

A portrait, in language, of female consciousness, truer than anything written since Sappho's Fragment 31. Once you're in, you're in ... You're racing along, deep in the rhythms of the narrator's thoughts, which are bone-true and demonically intelligent

Rachel Kushner, author of THE MARS ROOM

If I was permitted to keep one book only it would be Malina. Malina has everything

Claire-Louise Bennett, author of POND