An contemporary Austrian woman writer, Ingeberg Bachmann reveals the contradiction and potential crisis in the existing order of postwar western society in her works. Her check and criticism of Austrian culture reaches a very high ideological level, expressing a deep epochal theme, pointed criticism and deconstructive function. All this is closely concerned with the author’s cognition of literature. Bachmann thinks that literature always brings about the ray of ideal to human spirit, which she has practiced in her originalstyle writing of poems and novels.

Bachmann; Austrian literature; poetic criticism; view of literature; western modernistic literature