#ilse aichinger

[haveyoureadthisbook-poll]

Have you read The Greater Hope (or: Herod's Children) by Ilse Aichinger (orig. Die größere Hoffnung, 1948)?

yes

no

I didn't finish it

I've never heard of it

Voting ended onOct 26, 2024

[virtuouslibertines69]

"I wish to learn silence from the dark woods, the unused middle rooms, from the girls in their white dresses," - Ilse Aichinger, tr. by Beth Bjorklund, from Verschencter Rat: “Wish,"

[palatinewolfsblog]

"Whether the wide world is really wide

is up to each person."

Ilse Aichinger.

Wondering...

(For my dear Friend @rubenesque-dollyd-93 .)

[elizabethanism]

"But surely the greatest gift is to be able to be in the world and endure it, with a certain cheerfulness."

~ Ilse Aichinger

[aschenblumen]

Arrojad el fulgor de vuestros rostros a las tinieblas para aumentar la intensidad de la luz.

Ilse Aichinger, «El gran juego» en La esperanza más grande. Traducción de Adan Kovacsics.

[majestativa]

I don’t want a mirror, or a pane of glass, not even a murky handful of water to reflect my image back to me. Who knows, perhaps I rejoice because I am untraceable.

Ilse Aichinger, Bad Words: Selected Short Prose

[intimatum]

Ilse Aichinger, Kleist, Moos, Fasane: Aufzeichnungen 1950 - 1952

[literarycondition]

“The distance to the corner shops of childhood becomes unfathomable, immeasurable; the candy bars have changed. And change has changed.” Ilse Aichinger