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Abstract
This article explores the handling of time and care in two works by Ingeborg Bachmann: the short story ‘Das Gebell’ and the uncompleted novel Das Buch Franza. It argues that care and time are linked in the works, in a manner that echoes the thinking of Lisa Baraitser (Enduring Time). ‘Das Gebell’ offers a critique of masculinist models of time and puts forward a feminist ethics of care. Das Buch Franza points up the difficulty and ambivalence involved in care, as it traces the complex dynamic between a brother and a sister. Both texts explore the fascism that lurks beneath heterosexual relationships, in line with Karen R. Achberger's view that one theme runs throughout Bachmann's works: ‘the constant state of war’. This war is gendered in complex ways. Through her works, Bachmann complicates and enhances theories of submission and domination such as that developed by Jessica Benjamin (The Bonds of Love), the texts themselves forming sites of protest and transformation.
本文探讨英格博格·巴赫曼的两部作品中对时间和关怀的处理:短篇小说《爱的钟声》和未完成的小说《爱的弗兰扎》。它认为,在作品中,关心和时间是联系在一起的,以一种与丽莎·巴雷策(Lisa Baraitser)(《持久的时间》)的想法相呼应的方式。“Das Gebell”对男性主义的时间模式进行了批判,并提出了女性主义的关怀伦理。Das Buch Franza指出了照顾的困难和矛盾心理,因为它追溯了兄弟姐妹之间复杂的动态。这两篇文章都探讨了潜藏在异性恋关系之下的法西斯主义,这与Karen R. Achberger的观点一致,即巴赫曼的作品中贯穿着一个主题:“持续的战争状态”。这场战争以复杂的方式体现了性别。通过她的作品,巴赫曼使诸如杰西卡·本杰明(《爱的纽带》)所提出的屈从和统治理论变得复杂和强化,这些文本本身形成了抗议和变革的场所。
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- German Life and Letters was founded in 1936 by the distinguished British Germanist L.A. Willoughby and the publisher Basil Blackwell. In its first number the journal described its aim as "engagement with German culture in its widest aspects: its history, literature, religion, music, art; with German life in general". German LIfe and Letters has continued over the decades to observe its founding principles of providing an international and interdisciplinary forum for scholarly analysis of German culture past and present. The journal appears four times a year, and a typical number contains around eight articles of between six and eight thousand words each.