- Blurb -
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2019' On the day of the Great Fall he left nothing, nothing at all behind. ' The latest work by Peter Handke, one of our greatest living writers, chronicles a day in life of an ageing actor as he makes his way on foot from the outskirts of a great metropolis into its centre. He is scheduled to receive a prestigious award that evening from the country' s president, and the following day he is supposed to start shooting for a film - perhaps his last - in which he plays a man who runs amok. While passing through a forest, he encounters the outcasts of the society - homeless people and migrants - but he keeps trudging along, traversing a suburb whose inhabitants are locked in petty but mortal conflicts, crossing a seemingly unbridgeable superhighway, and wandering into an abandoned railyard, where police, unused to pedestrians, detain him briefly on suspicion of terrorism. Things don' t improve when he reaches the heart of the city. There he can' t help but see the alienation characteristic of its residents and the omnipresent malign influence of electronic technology. What, then, is the ' Great Fall' ? What is this heart-wrenching, humorous, distinctively attentive narrative trying to tell us? As usual, Peter Handke, deeply introspective and powerfully critical of the world around him, leaves it to the reader to figure out.
- Reviews -
"You are advised to read this book, take a cane, tuck a feather onto your hat like the hero, and to follow him . . . It is for your own good, reader, you will not regret it . . . This is a straightforward narration with plain and elegant sentences. The book is reminiscent of Handke' s beginnings, and it is impressive . . . German literature is not conceivable without Peter Handke. " * Die Zeit *
- Author Bio -
Peter Handke, born in 1942, is one of the most prolific, well-known, and respected authors writing in German today. Krishna Winston teaches German and environmental studies at Wesleyan University in Connecticut.
- Full Details -
Status: | Active |
ISBN-13: | 9780857428417 |
Published: | 11 May 2021 |
Published In: | United Kingdom |
Imprint: | Seagull Books London |
Publisher: | Seagull Books London |
Format: | Paperback |
Height: | 203mm |
Width: | 127mm |
Spine: | 18mm |
Pages: | 224 |
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