171 reviews for:

Malina

Ingeborg Bachmann

4.04 AVERAGE

challenging dark mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

I sincerely don’t know how to rate this. Such a viscerally painful, claustrophobic, fascinating and elusive novel.

kayahobi2023's review

3.75
dark mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

liesbeth_smet's review

1.5
dark emotional reflective tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

wiksor's review

5.0
dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
dark emotional reflective tense medium-paced

lenachka's review

3.0
challenging

this book actually messed up my brain chemistry further
dark mysterious tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I say casually: well…because a vacuum exists between what I’d really like to say and each of our sparse utterances.

My body now only moves in one continuous, soft, painful crucifixion on him.

No one has ever died as far as I’m concerned and it’s rare that anyone is living, except in the theater of my thoughts.

This was so feverish. interiority kept at arm’s length? Into it