The Wall

Marlen Haushofer
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The Wall

Alexa
1/7/2016
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This starts off with an interesting premise, but unfortunately goes steadily downhill from there. It eventually devolves into the most tedious daily recital of weather reports, mood analyses, and chore lists, salted with the most heavy-handed foreshadowing I've ever had the misfortune to encounter, and bitter ruminations on the pointlessness of human existence. What I find most troublesome is the assessment of some that this constitutes some sort of feminism. Feminism that consists of a complete obsession with the minutiae of a daily agricultural life and a nihilistic attitude towards humanity as a whole isn't for me.