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Set in 1960, Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke's
Repetition tells of Filib Kobal's journey from his home in Carinthia to Slovenia on the trail of his missing brother, Gregor. He is armed only with two of Gregor's books: a copy book from agricultural school, and a Slovenian - German dictionary, in which Gregor has marked certain words. The resulting investigation of the laws of language and naming becomes a transformative investigation of himself and the world around him.
"Handke's eminence, displayed in a substantial oeuvre of plays, novels and poems, is reaffirmed brilliantly by [
Repetition]." -
Publishers Weekly
About the author
Peter Handke was born in Griffen, Austria, in 1942. His many novels include
The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick,
A Sorrow Beyond Dreams,
My Year in the No-Man's-Bay, and
Crossing the Sierra de Gredos, all published by FSG. Handke's dramatic works include
Kaspar and the screenplay for Wim Wenders's
Wings of Desire. Handke is the recipient of many major literary awards, including the Georg Büchner, Franz Kafka, and Thomas Mann Prizes and the International Ibsen Award. In 2019, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience."
