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Peter Handke??? Over all the other authors in the world???
Seriously, what am I missing?
(Link to the Guardian article is in the title of this post.)
Peter Handke??? Over all the other authors in the world???
Seriously, what am I missing?
(Link to the Guardian article is in the title of this post.)
(The article begins on page 16.)
I found out about this via the Goodreads page of a children's book that's due to be published soon. A quote from the article:
"Following these common sense definitions, a meta-study untitled 'Cats are liquids' was recently published on boredpanda.com. I propose here to check if the panda’s claim that the cats are liquid is solid, by using the tools of modern rheology." (16)
And it has pictures.
As I found out after reading, this is one of the most famous and most widely-read novels of the first Australian recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Although critically acclaimed abroad it wasn't much of a success in Australia when it first came out in 1955.
It's the slow-paced life story of a good though rather taciturn farmer and his family in the stunning nature of New South Wales in the first half of the twentieth century. Things change all around, the children go their own ways and relations between husband and wife are characterised by affection and habit.
For more be invited to click here and read my long review on my book blog Edith's Miscellany or its duplicate on Read the Nobels!
Yey! I wasn't totally enamored with The Buried Giant and Nocturnes (and I've yet to read The Unconsoled and An Artist of the Floating World), but I'm a fan of his on the basis of Never Let Me Go, The Remains of the Day, and When We Were Orphans alone.
Congratulations, Mr. Ishiguro!
RIP, Sir, and my deepest respects (and regret).
Yet another one of the truly great souls who died this year.
