Short Letter, Long Farewell
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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