The Book of Franza & Requiem for Fanny Goldmann Quotes

“...all of this is such a long and dark and untellable story (untellable as all stories are). Meanwhile, one can only hold onto what is tangible and look at one's fingers, try to look into someone's eyes, and write down the sentences that are spoken, so that something is said by which one can begin to glimpse what really happened.”
― Ingeborg Bachmann, The Book of Franza & Requiem for Fanny Goldmann

“The facts that make the world real-- these depend on the unreal in order to be recognised by it.”
― Ingeborg Bachmann, The Book of Franza & Requiem for Fanny Goldmann

“But only the witnesses feel fear, a maddening fear, for what they could bring to light is even larger than the sun that is measured and gauged and set down down in a study.”
― Ingeborg Bachmann, The Book of Franza & Requiem for Fanny Goldmann