The Honditsch Cross

by Ingeborg Bachmann

Written when Ingeborg Bachmann was only eighteen, The Honditsch Cross, her second-longest completed work of prose, is a historical novella set during the final days of the Napoleonic occupation of Austria in 1813.

A young theology student, returning from Vienna to his family home in Carinthia, finds the invading troops stationed there, led by a despotic officer, who has been exploiting and terrorizing his family and friends. He is immediately...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811238563
• ISBN13: 9780811238564
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 80 Pages