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Article: Ingeborg B.: Duell mit dem Spiegelbild.(Brief Article)
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- World Literature Today
- Article date:
- September 22, 1994
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It is no accident that the title of Karin Struck's novel Ingeborg B. recalls Christa Wolf's Nachdenken uber Christa T. (1968; Eng. The Quest for Christa T.), for the two works are linked through several thematic and stylistic affinities. Like Wolf's narrator, the main character here, Vera Hauser, realizes that retracing the life and death of a vital person means facing painful insights about her own existence. Accordingly, Vera does not construct a biography of Ingeborg Bachmann so much as she records how her own personal struggles as a writer lead her to greater insights about Bachmann's sufferings and thus about herself.
In essence, Vera regards the circumstances ...