A sorrow beyond dreams / Peter Handke ; translated from the German by Ralph Manheim.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: German Publisher: London, England : Pushkin Press, 2019Copyright date: ©1974Description: 77 pages ; 20 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781782276081 (paperback)
- 1782276084 (paperback)
- PT2668A5 Wun 2019
- Winner of the Nobel prize in literature, 2019.
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Non-Fiction | Hakeke Street Library Non-Fiction | Non-Fiction | 838 HAN | Available | T00826267 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A beautiful, heart-wrenching attempt to come to terms with a mother's suicide by one of Austria's greatest living writers.
Reprint. Originally published: c1974.
A beautiful, heart-wrenching attempt to come to terms with a mother's suicide by one of Austria's greatest living writers. 'My mother has been dead for almost seven weeks: I had better go to work before the need to write about her, which I felt so strongly at her funeral, dies away and I fall back into the dull speechlessness with which I reacted to the nerves of her suicide.' So begins Peter Handke's extraordinary confrontation with his mother's death. In a painful and courageous attempt to deal with the almost intolerable horror of her suicide, he sets out to piece together the facts of her life, as he perceives them. What emerges is a loving portrait of inconsolable grief, a woman whose lively spirit has been crushed not once but over and over again by the miseries of her place and time. Yet well into middle age, living in the Austrian village of her birth, she still remains haunted by her dreams.
Winner of the Nobel prize in literature, 2019.