The wolf skin

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Wolfshaut is a parable by the Austrian opera singer and writer Hans Lebert, first published by Claassen Verlag in 1960 . She tells of the village of Schweigen, in which a few years after the end of the Second World War extraordinary deaths began to pile up, which resulted in accusations and defamations in the locality and brought to light a long-hushed, collective crime.

By some literary critics of the novel with other Austrian "anti homeland novels" was such as to the similarity Frost of Thomas Bernhard pointed out.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. The wolf skin - Hans Lebert . Book review, accessed October 24, 2015.
  2. Joachim Hoell: Mythical world of imagination and inherited nightmare. Ingeborg Bachmann and Thomas Bernhard. VanBremen Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 978-3980553445