Walden meets an animal novel that´s throwing around pieces of sexism, social criticism, and truths about human nature and thereby owns patriarchy, tradition, conservatism, and established mental degenerationĪlone in the woods, but haunted by human memories Marlen Haushofer came down with bone cancer and died on March the 21st 1970, she was only 49 years old. Not only because of the open ending, the novel allows a big variety of interpretations.
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. They had a son together, in addition to the one son she had brought to their “second” marriage.Īlthough Marlen Haushofer won prizes for her work and gained critics laud, she was an almost forgotten author until the Women's Movement rediscovered her, with special attention of the role of women in the male-dominated society themes in her work.ĭie Wand (The Wall) can be seen as her main-work. She married the dentist Manfred Haushofer in 1941, they divorced in 1950 but reunited in 1957. She started her studies on German Language and Literature, in 1940 in Vienna and later on in Graz. She went to a Catholic gymnasium that was turned in a public school under the Nazi regime. Marlen Haushofer was born in Frauenstein, Molln, Austria on April the 11th, 1920.
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