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EUR 24,80 ISBN 978-3-86057-209-2 Reihe: Studien zur deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur Studies in Contemporary German Literature |
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The study examines Bachmann’s poetry not as a journey towards silence, as
many critics have tended to do, but rather as a loquacity that centers around
the questions and uncertainties of writing in the German language after
Auschwitz. The real language crisis for Bachmann, the author argues, was not the
Chandos-like loss of a poetic voice, but rather the challenge, in the aftermath
of the war, of writing in the German language amid the rubble and traces of
German cultural, historical, and literary traditions. The insistence on the
presence of historical consciousness and discourse in Bachmann’s poetry is an
attempt to rescue the poems from the ahistoricizing tendency and instead to
place her entire poetic work within an historical, political, and literary
context. Reading Bachmann as a writer deeply concerned with history, however,
does not necessitate an overdetermined "historical" approach, in which
particular texts are held up as reflecting or corresponding directly to specific
events. Bachmann’s engagement is far more subtle and complex, suggestive rather
than demonstrative, a preoccupation that infuses her entire oeuvre. The attempt
to read a discourse on fascism in Bachmann’s poetry also necessitates an
examination of the ways in which the fascist past is constructed and remembered
by the literary critic: to read Bachmann’s landscapes as landscapes of history
is to insist as well on the public space of her poetic memory, to argue against
the construction of the poet’s world as a private, hermetic domain. The search
for the "unschuldiges Land" of the book’s title (a citation from Bachmann’s
translation of the Italian poet Guiseppe Ungaretti) is enacted in this ruined
landscape of history that pervades Bachmann’s poems. |
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