Malina - Ingeborg Bachmann Alexander van Kesteren Want ook al valt er

Want ook al valt er voor hen weinig te lachen

de kracht van literatuur en ballingschap

Maar kan ze ontkomen aan de bloedige geschiedenis van haar familie

nog maar net gedebuteerd met Oeroeg

Malina - Ingeborg Bachmann Alexander van Kesteren Want ook al valt erPart detective novel, part love story, part psychoanalytic case study, Malina is a staggering portrait of a writer trying to tell her own story in a world dominated by men. '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 postwar 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,