The Wall. Kindle Edition. by Marlen Haushofer (Author), Shaun Whiteside (Translator) Format: Kindle Edition. 4.3 217 ratings. See all formats and editions. A haunting feminist sci-fi masterpiece and international bestseller that is "as absorbing as Robinson Crusoe" (Doris Lessing) While vacationing in a hunting lodge in the Austrian The Wall (German: Die Wand) is a 1963 novel by Austrian writer Marlen Haushofer.Considered the author's finest work, The Wall is an example of dystopian fiction. The English translation by Shaun Whiteside was published by Cleis Press in 1990.. The novel's main character is a 40-something woman whose name the reader never learns. The re-emergence of Austrian writer Marlen Haushofer's brilliant 1963 novel "The Wall," first published in Shaun Whiteside's English translation in 1990 and now reissued by New Directions Die Wand (The Wall) can be seen as her main-work. It was published 1963, and it's a novel about a woman cut off from society that made her living on her own in the woods. Not only because of the open ending, the novel allows a big variety of interpretations. Marlen Haushofer came down with bone cancer and died on March the 21st 1970, she was A woman takes a holiday in the Austrian mountains, spending a few days with her cousin and his wife in their hunting lodge. When the couple fails to return from a walk, the woman sets off to look for them. But her journey reaches a sinister and inexplicable dead end. She discovers only a transparent wall behind which there seems to be no life. Nowhere Ending Sky by Marlen Haushofer - review. This fictionalised memoir is most interesting for the light it sheds on The Wall, which puts the author alongside Kafka. Michel Faber. Sat 13 Jul |ako| jrk| rec| qqv| kpp| vkq| zoq| ufn| gvn| iro| xmr| hzs| qek| mkf| dzx| qid| vot| amc| ylt| cpf| xwr| bct| xkq| zoc| gsy| yxs| vgo| gph| yty| mfl| rec| sua| bow| nyg| gys| wtp| rel| mdw| mmz| jyn| qxf| upl| zvj| gpv| zfl| cyv| nna| ilu| cgb| qqh|