Description
A luminous collection of seven stories, *The Thirtieth Year* unfolds less as conventional plot than as a series of charged reflections—moments where memory, language, and self-invention collide. Ingeborg Bachmann’s characters circle the unspeakable aftermath of war and the compromises of everyday life, revealing how people conceal their feelings even as they try to narrate their own truths. With lyrical precision and psychological sharpness, the stories probe guilt, denial, and the fragile ways we attempt to make experience bearable. Part of the postwar literary ferment associated with Group 47, Bachmann’s distinctive style—cool, musical, and unsentimental—turns inward, showing how the past can return not as history, but as atmosphere, silence, and fracture.
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Published Jan 1, 1964
200 pages
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First Published
1961
Language
eng
Translation
From: deu
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