Finally found an English version of “Mirror Story”, a powerful and haunting short story about the consequences of bans by Austrian poet Ilse Aichinger.

Remarkably, time is completely reversed here: A woman raises from her deathbed, revisits her fatal illegal abortion, grows estranged from her boyfriend, turns into a child again and eventually gets born.

This should be required reading in every state with an .
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Und auf Deutsch, wer möchte, nochmal zum Hören:

Ilse Aichingers „Spiegelgeschichte“ (1949) – Formexperiment und emotionaler gut punch in einem.

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(Quelle: Vera Teichmann, DLF Kultur)

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