Hidden Wall (guomai Classic)
About This Novel
Marlen Haushofer's The Hidden Wall (1963) is an important work of postwar German literature and is regarded as an existential novel and a feminist fable. The story tells the story of an unknown woman trapped in an Alpine valley due to a mysterious barrier. She can only rely on a few animals and survive through farming and hunting. The novel is written calmly in a diary style, peeling off the shell of civilization, showing the process of women re-establishing a relationship with nature in extreme isolation, and challenging anthropocentric and patriarchal logic. Its early warning of nuclear crisis and ecological collapse was far ahead of its time, making it a classic in "ruin literature" that uses a female perspective to supplement the gaps in existentialism.
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