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The Wall - Community Reviews back

by Marlen Haushofer, Shaun Whiteside
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M Sarki
M Sarki rated it 8 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...
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...
AnjaIsReading
AnjaIsReading rated it 11 years ago
Rezension auch hier ==> Marlen Haushofer – Die Wand | AnjaIsReadingAls ich das erste Mal von diesem Buch gehört habe, hatte es schon fast 50 Jahre auf dem Buckel. Vermutlich durch die Verfilmung mit Martina Gedeck in der Hauptrolle (die ich übrigens nicht gesehen habe) wieder ins Gedächtnis der Lese...
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...
andreadittbrenner
andreadittbrenner rated it 13 years ago
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...
some nice word
some nice word rated it 13 years ago
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 ...
Awogfli - Bookcroc
Awogfli - Bookcroc rated it 24 years ago
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...
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