From back cover: Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-1973) , an Austrian postwar author whose name and work have become widely recognized in German-speaking countires, is still relatively unknown in the United States, even though her writings deal with important contemporary and universal converns such as was, xenophobia, and gender rlations. Ingeborg Bachmann's Telling Stories explores Bachmann's prose in a socio-cultural and historical context by demonstrating how she applies elements from traditional German and Austrian fairy tales to come to terms with the events of the Third Reich and her reactions to the Holocaust. Krick-Aigner examines the intertextual references to the fairy tale in German Romanticism and explores the role of the writer in Bachmann's literaty tale in the novel Malina. . . . ; Studies in Austrian Literature, Culture; 215 pages