Bad Words: Selected Short Prose (The German List)

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Bad Words: Selected Short Prose (The German List)

Bad Words: Selected Short Prose

Written by Ilse Aichinger
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“I now no longer use the better words.” Ilse Aichinger (1921–2016) was one of the most important writers of postwar Austrian and German literature. Born in 1921 to a Jewish mother, she survived World War II in Vienna, while her twin sister Helga escaped with one of the last Kindertransporte to England in 1938. Many of their relatives were deported and murdered. Those losses make themselves felt throughout Aichinger’s writing, which since her first and only novel, The Greater Hope, in 1948, has highlighted displacement, estrangement, and a sharp skepticism toward language. By 1976, when she published Bad Words in German, her writing had become powerfully poetic, dense, and experimental. This volume presents the whole of the original Bad Words in English for the first time, along with a selection of Aichinger’s other short stories of the period; together, they demonstrate her courageous effort to create and deploy a language unmarred by misleading certainties, preconceived rules, or implicit ideologies.My language and I:I. My green donkey ; My father made from straw ; The mouse ; The arrival ; The crossbeamII. Memories for Samuel Greenberg ; Port sing ; Five proposals ; Only Joshua ; The Jouet sisters ; My language and IBad words:I. Bad words ; Stains ; Doubts about balconies The connoisseurs of western columns ; The guest ; Ambros ; Dover ; Privas ; Albany ; The forgetfulness of St Ives ; Rahel's clothes ; Cemetery in B. ; Wisconsin and apple riceII. Hemlin ; Surrender ; Salvage ; Galy Sad ; L. to Muzot ; Sur le bonheur ; Consensus ; Insurrection ; QueensCoda. Snow

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Published November 15, 2018
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Ilse Aichinger is the author of several novels. Originally from the East Coast, they now live in the Midwest with family. In addition to writing, Ilse Aichinger enjoys gardening, cooking, and reading way past bedtime. Their work often explores the complexities of everyday life and human relationships.

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