{"product_id":"9780857424761","title":"Bad Words: Selected Short Prose","description":"\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eI now no longer use the better words.\u003c\/i\u003e”\u003cbr\u003e Ilse Aichinger (1921–2016) was one of the most important writers of postwar Austrian and German literature. Born in 1921 to a Jewish mother, she survived World War II in Vienna, while her twin sister Helga escaped with one of the last \u003ci\u003eKindertransporte\u003c\/i\u003e to England in 1938. Many of their relatives were deported and murdered.\u003cp\u003eThose losses make themselves felt throughout Aichinger’s writing, which since her first and only novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Greater Hope\u003c\/i\u003e, in 1948, has highlighted displacement, estrangement, and a sharp skepticism toward language. By 1976, when she published \u003ci\u003eBad Words\u003c\/i\u003e in German, her writing had become powerfully poetic, dense, and experimental. This volume presents the whole of the original \u003ci\u003eBad Words\u003c\/i\u003e in English for the first time, along with a selection of Aichinger’s other short stories of the period; together, they demonstrate her courageous effort to create and deploy a language unmarred by misleading certainties, preconceived rules, or implicit ideologies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Seagull Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47027228541168,"sku":"9780857424761","price":24.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780857424761_p0.jpg?v=1763816485","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780857424761","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}