Abstract
This article examines the ongoing literary construction of Ingeborg Bachmann as a ‘sick poet’ and then asks whether – or how – her texts can be read as patho-texts without focusing on the author’s biography. In posthumously published texts („Male Oscuro“) Bachmann attempts to rewrite the narrative of the sick woman by claiming her symptoms as an individual expression of artistic value. In Malina, the relationships between the protagonists are negotiated in metaphors of infection, the mode of viral transmission thus becoming an essential motivic and narrative principle. To illustrate the intricate entanglement of body politics, subjectivity, and power of definition, this essay refers to the philosopher Paul B. Preciado. His theory of the “pharmapornographic regime” describes the development of a pharmaceutical-pornographic apparatus of control that no longer acts only from the outside, but from within the individual’s body.
Über die Autorin: Marlen Mairhofer, Universität Salzburg
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Rechte: CC-BY 4.0
Empfohlene Zitierweise: Marlen Mairhofer: „Ich war ja nicht krank – ich war nur krank, aber ganz anders“: Ingeborg Bachmanns (Patho?-)Texte, in: Kunst und Gebrechen, hg. v. Hildegard Fraueneder, Manfred Kern und Nora Grundtner, Wien: Sonderzahl 2024 (Figurationen des Übergangs 1), S. 175-189, DOI: 10.25598/transitionen-2024-i_6, <https://transition.hypotheses.org/4763>