Bound Man, the (1951) [Short Story]
by Ilse Aichinger
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A man wakes up and finds he has been robbed and tied up in rope, but loosely enough that he can still move. He joins a circus, where he becomes an act alongside the wild animals, clowns, and tightrope walkers.
Originally published in Der neue Rundschau, 1951.
Original title: Der Gefesselte
Original languages:
German
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Genre: Fiction→ General Fiction→ Literary Fiction/classics
This work is a subwork of the following works : Bound Man and Other Stories, the (1953) [Collection] Author: Ilse Aichinger
Great German Short Stories (1960) [Anthology] Authors: Franz Kafka
, Thomas Mann
, Heinrich Böll
, Rainer Maria Rilke
, Gottfried Keller
, Gottfried Benn
, Hugo von Hofmannsthal
, Heinrich von Kleist
, Ilse Aichinger
, Georg Heym
, Wolfgang Hildesheimer
, Heinz Huber
, Georg Büchner
, Adalbert Stifter
, Robert Walser
, Hans Erich Nossack
, Gerd Gaiser
Art of the Tale, the (1986) [Anthology] Authors: Graham Greene
, Milan Kundera
, Albert Camus
, Yasunari Kawabata
, Samuel Beckett
, Heinrich Böll
, Patrick White
, Isaac Bashevis Singer
, Naguib Mahfouz
, Nadine Gordimer
, Bernard Malamud
, Jean Stafford
, Eudora Welty
, John Cheever
, John Updike
, Peter Taylor
, Richard Ford
, Truman Capote
, Donald Barthelme
, Gabriel García Márquez
, Chinua Achebe
, Yukio Mishima
, Margaret Atwood
, Vladimir Nabokov
, Doris Lessing
, Joyce Carol Oates
, T.C. (Thomas Coraghessan) Boyle
, Paul Bowles
, Julio Cortázar
, Ian McEwan
, Italo Calvino
, Flannery O'Connor
, Jorge Luis Borges
, Tobias Wolff
, Frank O'Connor
, Isak Dinesen
, Raymond Carver
, William Trevor
, Carlos Fuentes
, Mario Vargas Llosa
, V. S. Pritchett
, Harold Brodkey
, E.L. Doctorow
, Ingeborg Bachmann
, Michel Tournier
, James Baldwin
, Grace Paley
, Edna O'Brien
, Ilse Aichinger
, Alberto Moravia
, Wolfgang Hildesheimer
, Tommaso Landolfi
, Cynthia Ozick
, Leon Rooke
, Dino Buzzati
, William H. Gass
, Nathalie Sarraute
, Alain Robbe-Grillet
, Tadeusz Borowski
, Russell Banks
, Mohammed Mrabet
, Wolfgang Borchert
, Luisa Valenzuela
, Leonard Michaels
, Cesare Pavese
, Amos Oz
, Susan Sontag
, Ann Beattie
, Vasily Askenov
, Abdeslam Boulaich
, Guy Davenport
, Stanley Elkin
, Mavis Gallant
, Natalia Ginzburg
, William Maxwell
, R.K. Narayan
, James Purdy
, Mercè Rodoreda
, Juan Rulfo
, Richard Wright
, Richard Yates
, Robert Coover
Contemporary German Fiction (1996) [Anthology] Authors: Sten Nadolny
, Günter Kunert
, Christoph Meckel
, Ilse Aichinger
, Thomas Brasch
, Marie Luise Kaschnitz
, Wolfdietrich Schnurre
, Reinhard Lettau
, Jurek Becker
, Hans Bender
, Peter Bichsel
, Wolfgang Borchert
, Hans Christoph Buch
, Hans J. Fröhlich
, Martin Grzimek
, Hannah Johansen
, Barbara König
, Gerhard Köpf
, Angelika Meckel
, Christa Reinig
, Gabriele Wohmann
, Siegfried Lenz
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