SHORT VERSION:Peter Handke’s A Sorrow Beyond Dreams (Wunschloses Unglück) is a stroke of genius! LONGER:A Sorrow Beyond Dreams is a short story about the suicide of a poor, sad and disillusioned Austrian woman who happened also to be Peter Handke’s mother. The book was written in 1972, shortly af...
There are books that are both beyond parody and beyond criticism, and this is one of them.In the case of parody, I considered writing one but realized that the results would look exactly like the book itself, which would serve little purpose other than to hold a mirror to it, when merely quoting ...
Son zamanlarda okuduğum en zorlayıcı ve zevksiz kitaplardan biri oldu. Kitabın uzun ve serbest bilinç akışı yöntemi ile yazılmış olmadı okunurluğu azaltıyor.Yazar kendi hayatından kesitleri gerçeklerle harmanlayarak, farklı şehirlerde geçen hayatını ve kitabını nasıl yazdığını anlatıyor.Serbest b...
It is hard for me not to compare this book with the one I read, and put down, just before it: The Quest for Christa T.. Both are odd and dense and uneven, but I found this Handke novel much less uneven and more satisfyingly odd. Often magical. I don't know how to describe the joys of Handke's wri...
Andreas Loser teaches classical languages and is obsessed with thresholds. He is a contemplative intellectual, reclusive, emotionally distant from his family (from whom he is separated), hesitant to commit himself to relationships, and in the habit of examining his every move before he makes it. ...
Strano questo La donna mancina. In prima istanza perché l’unico altro libro che avevo letto di Peter Handke era Le immagini perdute e già dalle dimensioni si differenziava non poco con questo volumetto di poche pagine. Nel tomo maggiore la prosa era ricca, e della trama mi sono rimaste solo poche...
Die Stunde der wahren Empfindung (1975) (translated into English under the title A Moment of True Feeling) is a relatively early entry in Handke's (b. 1942) oeuvre, but he already has much of his characteristic voice and strengths in this book. A minor functionary, Gregor (**), at the Austrian e...
The unlikely eventual existence of WG Sebald's four novels presupposes the writing of this book. But that's saying it all backwards, isn't it? The fact is Handke wrote first, and Sebald took what he started to its illogical conclusion with a magically sustained prose. Handke can be a bit dull and...
10.03.2013 Warum habe ich P. Handke so lange ein Schattendasein in meinem Leseleben zugewiesen? Schon der Beginn von "Versuch über die Müdigkeit" ist großartig. 17.03.2013 Versuch über die Müdigkeit gelesen und jetzt mitten im Versuch über die Jukebox. Ich darf als Leser dem Werden des Textes zus...