Zum hundertjährigen Marlen Haushofer Jubiläum. Die Zeiterfahrung in Haushofers Roman "Die Wand"
On the hundredth anniversary of Marlen Haushofer. The experience of time in Haushofer's novel "The Wall"

Summary/Abstract: On the occasion of Marlen Haushofer’s 100th birthday on 11 April 2020, the present paper concentrates upon her most important text, her novel The Wall, published in 1963. After a short outline of the diverging interpretive approaches and the elucidation of the structure of the novel as well as the multiple functions of the narrative report, the paper focuses on the basic existential situation of the novel and the protagonist’s perception of time, which changes essentially throughout the novel. The wall isolates the female protagonist from her former life so that there emerge two different time levels: on the one hand her life before the wall and on the other hand her new life after the detachment from civilization. The present paper describes her replacement of chronologically measurable time and her integration into the universal context of nature. Finally, the concept of the end time is analyzed.

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