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»›My mother has been dead for almost seven weeks: I had better go to work before the need to write about her, which I felt so strongly at her funeral, dies away and I fall back into the dull speechlessness with which I reacted to the nerves of her suicide.‹
So begins Peter Handke’s extraordinary confrontation with his mother’s death. In a painful and courageous attempt to deal with the almost intolerable horror of her suicide, he sets out to...»›My mother has been dead for almost seven weeks: I had better go to work before the need to write about her, which I felt so strongly at her funeral, dies away and I fall back into the dull speechlessness with which I reacted to the nerves of her suicide.‹
So begins Peter Handke’s extraordinary confrontation with his mother’s death. In a painful and courageous attempt to deal with the almost intolerable horror of her suicide, he sets out to piece together the facts of her life, as he perceives them. What emerges is a loving portrait of inconsolable grief, a woman whose lively spirit has been crushed not once but over and over again by the miseries of her place and time. Yet well into middle age, living in the Austrian village of her birth, she still remains haunted by her dreams.« (book description from the English edition by Pushkin)»moving and beautifully realized« Richard Locke, The New York Times Book Review
»A Sorrow Beyond Dreams is Handke's masterpiece, a short, concentrated, mysteriously exhaustive portrait of his mother, from whom history and circumstance have removed most traces of an identity.« J. S. Marcus, The New York Review of Books
»indispensable« Bill Marx, The Boston Globe
»In A Sorrow Beyond Dreams, the author confronts his mother's suicide in a compelling story that is ›like an explanation of a recurrent dream, a dream so vividly expressed it becomes our dream.‹« Chicago Sun-Times
»A Sorrow Beyond Dreams is moving and urgent. No doubt some of the best Peter Handke has written to date.« Henriette Bacher Lind, Jyllands-Posten (Denmark)
»With the masterpiece about his mother's suicide, Handke shows how language is a prison that in the age of patriarchy never offered the woman an actual ›self‹ to kill.« Simon Lund Petersen, POV (Denmark)
»[...] I [...] will not hesitate to call his most important, his most essential work, and a book one should definitely take the time to read« Jørgen Herman Monrad, Weekendavisen (Denmark)
»moving and beautifully realized« Richard Locke, The New York Times Book Review
»A Sorrow Beyond Dreams is Handke's masterpiece, a short, concentrated, mysteriously exhaustive portrait of his mother, from whom history and circumstance have removed most traces of an identity.« J. S. Marcus, The New York Review of Books
»indispensable« Bill Marx, The Boston Globe
»In A...
Peter Handke, born in 1942 in Griffen, Austria, lives near Paris. His books have been translated into more than 35 languages. In 2019, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Peter Handke, born in 1942 in Griffen, Austria, lives near Paris. His books have been translated into more than 35 languages. In 2019, he was...
Gregor returns home from another continent. The landscape, formerly characterised by its many villages, has become an urban agglomeration, both familiar and foreign at the same time. His family...
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Since the early seventies, Peter Handke has filled thousands of pages in notebooks. The slim books, which have to fit in every shirt and jacket pocket, are indispensable companions on every journey. They are used to record ideas for literary projects, but, most importantly, things that Handke has seen, read and heard. »I practised reacting to everything that happened to me immediately...
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His surroundings see him as a man possessed, »possessed not just by one, but by several, many, even countless demons«. During the day, he, a fruit grower by profession, walks through the village....
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»An extensive scene«, a public place, »definitely not a free space«; possibly in the Spanish province of Avila or in Humpolec in Bohemia, now or at another time. A narrator who is one of...
Returning to the area southwest of Paris after years of being on the road, three days later the hero was forced to set out again. In contrast to previous explorations of the world, this time he...
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The Fruit Thief is nothing less than the book of the world: within it everything is possible, in both a positive as well as a negative sense. And reading it means: to have new experiences...
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»Described as an answer to or at least an echo of Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape?, Till Day You Do Part Or A Question of Light is a monologue delivered by the ›she‹ in...
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Peter Handke’s last novel Don Juan reported on his experiences with women during a world trip. At the time, Neue Zürcher Zeitung wrote: »This is Handke-country, in a way that no...
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