The Wall
I can allow myself to write the truth; all the people for whom I have lied throughout my life are dead
” writes the heroine of Marlen Haushofer’s The Wall, a quite ordinary, unnamed middle-aged woman who awakens to find she is the last living human being. Surmising her solitude is the result of...
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I can allow myself to write the truth; all the people for whom I have lied throughout my life are dead
” writes the heroine of Marlen Haushofer’s The Wall, a quite ordinary, unnamed middle-aged woman who awakens to find she is the last living human being. Surmising her solitude is the result of a too successful military experiment, she begins the terrifying work of not only survival, but self-renewal. The Wall is at once a simple and moving talk of potatoes and beans, of hoping for a calf, of counting matches, of forgetting the taste of sugar and the use of one’s name and a disturbing meditation on 20th century history.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781573449069 (1573449067)
ASIN: 1573449067
Publish date: June 11th 2013
Publisher: Cleis Press
Pages no: 244
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Novels,
Science Fiction,
Literature,
European Literature,
Book Club,
20th Century,
Contemporary,
German Literature,
Dystopia,
Apocalyptic,
Post Apocalyptic
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...
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...
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...
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