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171 reviews for:

Malina

Ingeborg Bachmann

4.04 AVERAGE

unriaan's review

5.0
challenging dark
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
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vee's review

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

Lurid, painful, and delicious. It felt less like reading a novel and more like someone was pouring tea into my eyes

cevillec's review

4.0
challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

sararuiz647's review

4.5
challenging dark emotional mysterious 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

Sehr, sehr gut.
Die Erzählform ist gleichzeitig sperrig, oft wirr und ungleichmäßig aber oft auch sehr poetisch, selbst telegrammartige Telefongespräche zeigen lyrische Einflüsse. Sie lässt den Inhalt und die Situation der Erzählerin erst langsam im Verlauf des Romans erschließen und saugt den Leser so gleichsam immer mehr ein.
Der Roman schildert in großer Deutlichkeit ein psychisches Bild, das unter den Einflüssen geschlechtlicher Hierarchien und der Strukturen des Nationalsozialismus, den Erlebnissen in Konzentrationslagern, entstanden ist und macht es in dessen Persönlichkeit umso nachvollziehbarer.

reading and rereading and rereading those last pages infinitely…

lisakdeng's review

5.0

“…I haven’t grown closer to myself at all. I’ve just watched one unknown woman slide further and further into another.” A staggering work of madness. Helps to know the author’s life in parallel.

hannahgadbois's review

5.0

"The borders were soon defined, after all only a tiny country had to be established, without territorial claims or even a proper constitution, an intoxicated land with only two houses you can find in the dark, even during total eclipses (solar and lunar), and I know by heart how many steps it takes, going diagonally, to reach Ivan's, I could even walk there blindfolded. Now the rest of the world, where I lived up to now -- always in a panic, my mouth full of cotton, the throttle marks on my neck -- is reduced to its petty insignificance since it is opposed by something truly powerful even if this only consists of waiting and smoking, like it does today, so no part of this force is lost."
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taniatrn's review

3.5
challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
challenging dark emotional mysterious medium-paced