The illustrious Germanist Katrin Dautel reasons that the cultural idiosyncrasy of the civilizations formed on islands can also be observed in communities settled in the vastness of the continents. He exemplifies this phenomenon with the novel The Wall , by Marlen Haushofer , whose protagonist subsists autarkically in the Austrian mountains, isolated from the world by an invisible wall. This beautiful allegory of the island cultures germinated in continental spaces, more evocative, too, of the human propensity for asceticism. The island peoples, argued Rudolph von Jhering , forge individualistic consciences and, from their separation
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