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A sorrow beyond dreams / Peter Handke ; translated from the German by Ralph Manheim.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: German Publisher: London, England : Pushkin Press, 2019Copyright date: ©1974Description: 77 pages ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781782276081 (paperback)
  • 1782276084 (paperback)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PT2668A5 Wun 2019
Awards:
  • Winner of the Nobel prize in literature, 2019.
Summary: 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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Non-Fiction Hakeke Street Library Non-Fiction Non-Fiction 838 HAN Available T00826267
Total holds: 0

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.

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