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The Honditsch Cross
Paperback
General FictionHistorical Fiction
Publisher Price: $15.95
ISBN13: 9780811238564
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: Apr 22 2025
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
Written when Ingeborg Bachmann was only eighteen, The Honditsch Cross, her second-longest completed work of prose, is a historical novella set during the final days of the Napoleonic occupation of Austria in 1813.
A young theology student, returning from Vienna to his family home in Carinthia, finds the invading troops stationed there, led by a despotic officer, who has been exploiting and terrorizing his family and friends. He is immediately thrown into the center of the conflict, torn between defending his homeland, the pull of physical desire, and the pursuit of his theological studies...
In this gripping work, Bachmann begins to explore themes that will pre-occupy her for the rest of her writing career: complex notions of nationality and patriotism, the roles and rights of women in patriarchal societies, the meaningless destruction of war and its aftermath, and the bitter moments of disillusionment that lead to intellectual maturity
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