Peter Handke
Birth date: December 06, 1942
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...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...
Die Stunde der wahren Empfindung (1975) 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 embassy in Paris dreams one night that he murders an old women, and this...
I received this book as a gift, and, prior to reading it, I've never heard of Peter Handke or this work. This is to say that I did not know what to expect. While the cover is not particularly interesting, the strong title grabbed my attention. Also, the front cover blurb mentions Camus's The Strange...
This slim book seems to draw readymade comparisons to Camus’s L’Étranger, which I think is a very poor way to approach Handke’s novella. While both texts deal with a man in an existential crisis and while there are murders, the similarities end there. Camus is concerned with the dissolution of a spe...
NYRB not only has an amazing selection of books, but their cover design is invariably gorgeous, and in a few cases even seems reason enough to buy some of their titles. I loved the cover of [b:Stoner|166997|Stoner|John Edward Williams|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1320600716s/166997.jpg|1559207] and ...
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