#marlen haushofer

[haveyoureadthisbook-poll]

[deactivealleg]

“On the long walk back I thought about my former life and found it unsatisfactory in all respects. I had achieved little that I had wanted, and everything I had achieved I had ceased to want. That’s probably how it was for everybody else too. It’s something we never talked about, when we used to talk.”

Marlen Haushofer, “The Wall”

[rachel-sylvan-author]

Last (or is she?) Woman on Earth (or is it?) 5 stars, both!

"I Who Have Never Known Men" by Jacqueline Harpman "The Wall" by Marlen Haushofer

QOTD: What last-woman-on-earth books do you love? ❤️

[crispapples]

“For as long as there’s something for me to love in the forest, I shall love it; and if some day there is nothing, I shall stop living.”

“Loving and looking after a creature is a very troublesome business, and much harder than killing and destruction. It takes twenty years to bring up a child, and ten seconds to kill it”

Marlen Haushofer.

The Wall.

Forever and always my favourite book.

[plutonium-antea-statum]

Has anyone made a Die Wand (1968) by Marlen Haushofer (aka “The Wall” in english) AU of Malevolent yet because I need it/have thought about it too much

[furien]

Der einzige Feind, den ich in meinem bisherigen Leben gekannt hatte, war der Mensch gewesen.

[wishblown]

I don’t know what ‘human nature’ is. Maybe leaving descriptions of what we wipe out is part of human nature […]

— Ursula K. Le Guin; The Word for World is Forest

January Reads!

A Room of One’s Own & Three Guineas by Virginia Woolf — 4.25/5: two very good essays that should definitely be read together (and are thus usually paired up anyway), I enjoyed Three Guineas even more than A Room bc imo it went deeper into analysis of patriarchal structures and systems that uphold them such as capitalism and its connections to war and fascism. both still just as relevant today as they were then.

Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka — 4.5/5: i mean, yk? what’s there to say: finally got round to reading this after reading sm of his other work and hugely enjoyed this (no surprise here)

Malina by Ingeborg Bachmann — 4/5: such an interesting story! the style reminded me a lot of Wolf’s (+++); a novel to just dive into without reading too much about it beforehand. great if you’re into character ruminations and unwinding childhoods and relationships

Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo — 5/5: gave into the hype and wasn’t disappointed! a very quick read but such a good one! would love to read more stories like this one (Malina actually reminded me a little of it). love how the author got her point across in so few words without missing anything

The Word for World is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin — 4.75/5: Le Guin my beloved <3 one of her shorter works of the Hainish cycle (afaik) but carries such a punch! there really are no easy answers, are there? how does the very necessary fight against oppression change the oppressed? can you put the weapons (and the war) down afterwards?

The Wall by Marlen Haushofer — 4.25/5: the premise of this novel was what initially caught my attention — a woman is separated from the rest of the world by an invisible wall behind which the rest of the world seemingly has been frozen/has died — but reading it, it is so much more than some scifi-esque story element (= the weird wall). it’s both depressing and oppressive and yet so full of hope and a deep longing for life and a will to keep going despite despite despite. also the way Haushofer shows care and tenderness persevering in the human heart is beautiful.

[fremdwortlexikon]

... er liebt das Leben nicht wirklich, es ist für ihn eine Aufgabe, die ihm ein unbekannter Lehrer gestellt hat und die er nicht bewältigen kann, sosehr er sich bemüht. Und er bemüht sich sehr ...

Marlen Haushofer, Die Mansarde

[eva248]

Lecturas de agosto. Quinta semana

La furia / Alex Michaelides. Editorial Alfaguara, 2024 Esta es la historia de un asesinato. O quizá esto no sea del todo cierto. En el fondo, es sobre todo una historia de amor. Lana Farrar es una antigua estrella de cine, un icono de la moda admirado durante años. Desde que su marido falleció, vive reclusa en su mansión de Londres. Cada año invita a sus amigos más íntimos a escapar del clima…

[allegorecho]

“Since my childhood I had forgotten how to see things with my own eyes, and I had forgotten that the world had once been young, untouched and very beautiful and terrible. I couldn’t find my way back there, since I was no longer a child and no longer capable of experiencing things as a child, but loneliness led me, in moments free of memory and consciousness, to see the great brilliance of life again.”

Marlen Haushofer, “The Wall”

[deactivealleg]

“She loved life so much, and always did everything wrong, because in our world you can’t love life as much as that with impunity.”

Marlen Haushofer, “The Wall”

[gongso]

2024-06-03 Sophie Rois fährt gegen die Wand @DeutschesTheater

[crispapples]

“I always kept quiet about this heavy load; a man wouldn’t have understood, and the women felt exactly the same way I did”

-Marlen Haushofer

The Wall

[katefathers]

Starburst Magazine Issue 486 is here!

In this issue, we take a look at 45 years of the XENOMORPH, as well as Star Wars, cult horror Basket Case, anime, books and more!

In my Book Wormhole column, I review Marlen Haushofer's dystopian novel The Wall, and in Volume 2 of our new 1001 Best Films You've (Probably) Never Seen, I sing the praises of Enda Walsh's 2022 stop motion animation anthology film The House.

Head on over to the Starburst website and pick up a copy today!

[furien]

Mein Herz hatte sich schon gefürchtet, ehe ich es wusste.