by Marlen Haushofer
http://msarki.tumblr.com/post/146806430403/the-wall-by-marlen-haushoferWhat a marvelous book. It is beyond me why this novel is classified a feminist classic as it holds up as something great no matter whose sex wrote it. This is a story of redemption under grave circumstances. It is a tale of dete...
I am almost haunted by this book. The woman in this tale is unlike any, or maybe it is just that she is every woman. She finds herself trapped in a hunting lodge after an unexplainable "wall" has come down around her. She is all alone, except for the animals she cares for. A woman past her prime wit...
While reading The Wall it was as if I was reading something that I had written, not someone else. It was the same feeling I often get when I've read a journal entry that I wrote years ago, familiar but at the same time it seems as though everything written in that journal happened to someone else. T...
Dieser Roman war mein 1. von der Autorin...gefesselt bis zur letzten Seite konnte ich es garnicht glauben, als ich am Ende ankam...hielt das Buch danach noch eine ganze Zeit in den Händen...in der Hoffnung, dass...aber es war unwiderruflich zu ende...also informierte ich mich über diese Autorin...un...
First it seems to be brilliant, nothing more. Ideas for great interpretations, especially the ones considering the year it was published (1968), kept coming to me with the flow of simple, direct language that expresses what is necessary. Later I got tired of that. Waiting for a new perspective when ...
Book2moviechallenge 201212/12 Ein Film der 2012 aus einer Literaturvorlage veröffentlicht wird Buch 5 Sterne Eines jener Bücher, das mich beim erstmaligen Lesen vor mehr als 10 Jahren am meisten beeindruckt und gleichzeitig extrem verstört hat. Die Hauptdarstellerin ist zu Gast auf Sommerfrische bei...