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In 1939 Ilse Aichinger remained in Vienna, while her twin sister Helga travelled to London on a Kindertransport. Some members of their family did not survive the Shoah. In lives marked by departure and arrival, by suffering and creativity, the sisters produced significant literary and artistic works which, 100 years after their birth, are examined and honoured in this bilingual volume.

First published in 1987, and encompassing texts from almost four decades, "Kleist, Moss, Pheasants" brings together autobiographical pieces, diary entries and reflections on fellow authors by Ilse Aichinger. As Richard Reichensperger remarks, the volume demonstrates the complex interconnections between historical events and Aichinger's life, thought and writing. The style, tone and force of "Kleist, Moss, Pheasants" foreshadow the Major achiev...

The essays in this volume record journeys which are improbable in every sense. Writing in Viennese cafés on whatever paper is to hand, Ilse Aichinger travels into history, into memory, into the present and into her imagination. She traces the life story of her great grandfather "Dziadzio", recalls the cramped apartment in post-war Vienna where she sat at a "little whitepainted kitchen table and started writing The Greater Hope, " ponders "the ...

Ilse Aichinger was born to a Jewish mother in Vienna in 1921. Prior to 1938 her Aunt Klara waited for the family in London, but only Ilse's twin sister, Helga, escaped on the last Kindertransport. Ilse remained. She survived, and published The Greater Hope in 1948. The novel reflects Ilse Aichinger's experience of anti-Semitism as young woman in Nazi Austria, and through her extraordinary use of language the author not only captures the horror...