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In the story Short Letter, Long Farewell a young Austrian travels across the USA, fleeing while at the same time seeking his wife Judith. He meets Claire, an old flame; participates in discussion of the relationships between the stage and reality after attending a performance of Schiller’s Don Carlos; experiences his brother in his naive attachment to childhood, and talks to John Ford about nature ad history. His melancholy and hopelessness form a contrast to the different...
In the story Short Letter, Long Farewell a young Austrian travels across the USA, fleeing while at the same time seeking his wife Judith. He meets Claire, an old flame; participates in discussion of the relationships between the stage and reality after attending a performance of Schiller’s Don Carlos; experiences his brother in his naive attachment to childhood, and talks to John Ford about nature ad history. His melancholy and hopelessness form a contrast to the different sense of time and to the different way of life of the strange country. This great story by Peter Handke is a contemporary entwicklungsroman, the adventurous story of a separation and as suspenseful as a crime novel.
»The novel is full of vivid snapshots of American characters and scenes, and the idiosyncratic mixture of narrative, interior monologue, natural description and cultural themes and clichés is a brilliant concoction.« The New York Times Book Review
»This is a postmodernism in its most exciting and challenging form, a work of literature that makes the redefinition of reality and of fiction a possibility.« Choice
»The novel is full of vivid snapshots of American characters and scenes, and the idiosyncratic mixture of narrative, interior monologue, natural description and cultural themes and clichés is a brilliant concoction.« The New York Times Book Review
»This is a postmodernism in its most exciting and challenging form, a work of literature that makes the redefinition of reality and of fiction a possibility.« Choice
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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