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Marlen Haushofer
Birth date: April 11, 1920
Died: March 21, 1970
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Lagraziana's Kalliopeion
Lagraziana's Kalliopeion rated it 8 years ago
It’s a well-known truth that love has the potential to make blind for anything unpleasant involved and at all times writers gladly took up the theme to dwell on the tangle and the suffering that results from it. In the history of literature there are scores of novels – all-time classics and probably...
M Sarki
M Sarki rated it 9 years ago
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...
M Sarki
M Sarki rated it 9 years ago
http://msarki.tumblr.com/post/145868679193/the-jib-door-by-marlen-haushoferIt has been some time since I last read a book so dark and biting to the core. The honesty forthcoming from Marlen Haushofer is astounding. This is a penetrating study for living in the world, and not necessarily in harmony w...
KissinBlueKaren
KissinBlueKaren rated it 11 years ago
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...
Oh Dear
Oh Dear rated it 12 years ago
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...
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