The Book of Franza & Requiem for Fanny Goldmann

These unfinished novels were intended to follow her widely acclaimed Malina. in a Proustian cycle to be entitled Todesarten,. or Ways of Dying. Through the tales of two women in postwar Austria, Bachmann explores the ways of dying inflicted on women by men, and upon the living by history, politics, religion, family, and the self.