Agnese, Barbara2019-02-262019-02-262018Agnese, B. (2019). War in Peacetime: Authorship between Bachmann and Ungaretti. Konturen, 10, 81-102. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.5399/uo/konturen.10.0.45111947-3796https://hdl.handle.net/1794/2444924 pagesThe following reflections contribute to an exploration of the "peacetime crimes" in Ingeborg Bachmann's work by offering an analysis of an episode in her novel Malina. Tracing a hitherto unnoticed allusion to a poem by Ungaretti, the analysis also contributes to a discussion of Bachmann's poetics of citation. The subtle web of intertextual play and citation that pervades the whole novel de-emphasizes the role of the author in literary history and opens instead a reading space where literature as textual memory, again and again, comes to be actualized.enCreative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-USArticle10.5399/uo/konturen.10.0.4511