by Peter Handke
...disorder, cold, and silence drive me to distraction;... And so seven weeks after his mother's suicide at the age of 51, Handke makes himself sit down to write an account of her life, trying to avoid what he terms the "transformations" that would turn his story into art or allow him to distance hi...
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