<p>Christine Lavant (1915-1973), one of Austria's most famous yet obscure 20th century poets, wrote these memoirs during a voluntary six-week stay in an asylum. Although written in 1946 the memoirs were not published until 2001 because the poet felt that the work was too personal. She records her failed suicide attempt, her sleeplessness, her exhaustion, her eccentric and mad inmates, her daily struggle to survive by writing. The author spent most of her life in a small southern Austrian village, where she was born as the ninth child in a family of miners. Pathologically introverted, she was plagued by poverty and illness and supported herself with knitting. Her poetry is unconventional, filled with neologisms, mysterious and magical. We hear echoes of Rilke, whom she admired. Thomas Bernhard referred to her work as testimony to a "zerstörte Welt/destroyed world". She was honoured with numerous literary awards, among them the Austrian State Prize for Literature in 1970, three years before her death.</p>

Memoirs From A Madhouse (STUDIES IN AUSTRIAN LITERATURE, CULTURE, AND THOUGHT. TRANSLATION SERIES)

Biographies & Memoirs

Lavant, Christine

Latimer, Renate

Memoirs

Ariadne Pr

La Mal-née

Literature & Fiction

Literary

NOUVELLES LIGNE

Un art comme le mien n'est que vie mutilée

Das kind - l'enfant

LEO SCHEER

Der Pfauenschrei.

Müller (Otto), Salzburg

Herz auf dem Sprung: Die Briefe an Ingeborg Teuffenbach (German Edition)

Otto Müller

Das Wechselbälgchen.

Aufzeichnungen aus einem Irrenhaus.

Steinsiek, Annette

Schneider, Ursula A

Und jeder Himmel schaut verschlossen zu: Fünfundzwanzig Gedichte für O.S (Bibliothek Wiederaufnahme österreichische Literatur des 20. Jahrhunderts) (German Edition)

Jungbrunnen

Das Wechselbälgchen

Short Stories & Anthologies

Wallstein Verlag GmbH

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