The Wall

Science Fiction & Fantasy, Science Fiction, Fiction & Literature, Literary
Cover of the book The Wall by Marlen Haushofer, Cleis Press
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Author: Marlen Haushofer ISBN: 9781573449151
Publisher: Cleis Press Publication: June 11, 2011
Imprint: Cleis Press Language: English
Author: Marlen Haushofer
ISBN: 9781573449151
Publisher: Cleis Press
Publication: June 11, 2011
Imprint: Cleis Press
Language: English

“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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“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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