Killing Stella by Marlen Haushofer

Killing Stella by Marlen Haushofer

Never before in English, a gripping, razor-sharp novella of a fractured marriage, by the ferociously talented author of THE WALL

"This potent 1958 novella from Austrian writer Haushofer (The Wall) takes the form of a mother's agitated confession… Haushofer vividly evokes Anna's shame, fear, numbness, regret, and anger, revealing the depths of claustrophobic unhappiness in her household. This one hits hard." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"The late Haushofer (1920–1970) brilliantly transforms an inevitable fatal ending into an electrifying beginning. Originally published in 1958, precisely translated by Shaun Whiteside, Stella remains timelessly potent, its haunting horror more relevant than ever." -- Booklist
"It is not often that you can say only a woman could have written this book, but women in particular will understand the heroine’s loving devotion to the details of making and keeping life, every day felt as a victory against everything that would like to undermine and destroy." -- Doris Lessing
"Brilliant in its sustainment of dread, in its peeling away of old layers of reality to expose a raw way of seeing and feeling. I know of no closer study in claustrophobia and liberation, and of an independence whose severity is at once ecstatic and doomed." -- Nicole Krauss
"Haushofer’s sentences are simple and concise, and full of careful thought. The ideas she expresses are so important that you wonder how you have managed to get by without them." -- Missouri Williams - The Nation
"A slim domestic horror story that serves as a perfect entry point to Haushofer's work." -- Vulture

Marlen Haushofer (1920–1970) was an Austrian author of short stories, novels, radio plays, and children’s books. Her work has had a strong influence on many German-language writers, such as the Nobel Prize–winner Elfriede Jelinek, who dedicated one of her plays to her. The relaunch of her classic The Wall—acclaimed "strange and wondrous" by James Wood in The New Yorker—was a major literary sensation. Shaun Whiteside is a translator of French, Dutch, German, and Italian literature.

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ISBN 13	9780811238656
ISBN 10	0811238652
Title	Killing Stella
Author	Marlen Haushofer
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	New Directions Publishing Corporation
Year published	2025-07-08
Number of pages	80
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