German Quarterly, April 1st, 2003
Strigl, Daniela. Marlen Haushofer. Die Biographie. Munchen: Claassen, 2000 (2. Auflage). 398 pp. DM 44.00 paperback.
The Austrian writer Marlen Haushofer, who had begun her literary career in the postwar era, died in 1970, leaving an impressive prose oeuvre, notably the science-fiction inspired feminist novel Die Wand, the family tragedy Wir toten Stella, and the autobiographical novel of her childhood, Himmel der nirgendwo endet. Unlike Ilse Aichinger or Ingeborg Bachmann, Haushofer had not been at the forefront of the postwar avantgarde, even though her roots were in the same circles and li...
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