Publisher's Synopsis
Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-73) was one of the major writers of the 20th century: a poet who turned away from poetry; and a prose writer whose great project remained unfinished at the time of her death by fire. Letters to Felician came both chronologically and conceptually just before the fork in the road which divides the Bachmanns, making it an important document for reading her later work. Passionate declarations of love to a male figure, Felician, these fictional love letters are also a hymn to the beauty of Austria, underlying the utopian visions of her later work.
