The Changeling and Other Stories
$36.55
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
19 January 2027
Summary
Haunting and strikingly idiosyncratic stories of childhood, disability, and rural prejudice from an Austrian writer rarely translated into English.
Christine Lavant was a giant of post-war Austrian literature whose fictions are on par with the best of Ingeborg Bachmann and Thomas Bernhard. Social outcasts, lonely children, and persecuted women are the subjects of Lavant’s stories, which mercilessly expose the rigid social stratification and exploitative, nearly feudal system that reig…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9798896231318 |
|---|---|
| Author: | Christine Lavant, Tess Lewis |
| Publisher: | New York Review Books |
| Imprint: | NYRB Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 19 January 2027 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 127mm x 203mm |
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Christine Lavant
Christine Lavant
Christine Lavant (1915-1973) was an Austrian writer of prose and poetry. The last of nine children in a nearly destitute miner’s family, she was plagued by ill health throughout her life, spending time in hospitals and a sanitorium during her childhood and early adulthood. She married in the late 1930s, and in 1945, inspired by reading Rilke’s late poems, she began writing thousands of pages of poetry and prose all while supporting herself and her husband with needlework. She won several awards for her writing and gave a few public readings during her lifetime, but she retreated into relative seclusion in her later years.
Tess Lewis
Tess Lewis is a translator from French and German. For New York Review Books, she has translated work by Walter Benjamin, Ernst Jünger, and Lutz Seiler.
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