Reviews - Die Wand | The StoryGraph

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I find books like this so fascinating. How does a book with such minimal plot keep you hooked? Although on the surface a book of a woman maintaining her animals and self, when you look deeply into its criticism of capitalism, the patriarchy and how bogged down we get in materialism. What struck me so much is our lack of ability to think freely, and that once pretty much everything is taken from us, we can see. Also, the intentionality of it being a man that destroys things - shock. Feel fantastically forward for a book written in 1963.

ananascanread's review against another edition

4.5

girl, the wall is not a story—it’s an atmosphere.
a woman trapped by an invisible barrier, left with just a dog, some cows, and the wild.
no drama, no escape plan—just raw, slow loneliness that feels like it’s swallowing the whole world.
haushofer writes like she’s peeling back layers of your own skin—soft, quiet, but unshakable.
this book is a love letter to solitude and survival, and it wrecked me.

eatingjewels's review against another edition

3.5

challenging reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

My journey with this book as the reader felt similar to the narrator. Isolating and withstanding. I felt the timeline of the report become loose and jumbled as I think our narrator's own recollections did. How long have we been here? How long has this been life? It's a cold book but I felt connected to her loneliness.
I thought the way she explained no longer feeling as an individual but as a small part of the whole. Even as she seems to be completely alone. Not a book I'd recommend to a lot of people but interesting nevertheless.