Sorrow Beyond Dreams

Informationen zum Autor Peter Handke! dramatist! novelist! poet! essayist and writer of screenplays! was born in Griffen! Austria in 1942. Handke has been awarded many literary prizes! including the Schiller Prize in 1972 and the Kafka Prize in 1979! which he turned down. He now lives and works in Paris. Klappentext "My mother has been dead for almost seven weeks: I had better get to work before the need to write about her! which I felt so strongly at her funeral! dies away ..." So begins Peter Handke's extraordinary confrontation with his mother's death. In a painful and courageous attempt to deal with the horror of her suicide! he sets out to piece together the facts of her life. What emerges is a loving portrait of inconsolable grief! a woman whose lively spirit has been crushed by the miseries of her place and time. The avant-garde Austrian novelist´s attempt to reconstruct his mother´s life Zusammenfassung "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. Pushkin Collection editions feature a spare! elegant series style and superior! durable components. The Collection is typeset in Monotype Baskerville! litho-printed on Munken Premium White Paper and notch-bound by the independently owned printer TJ International in Padstow. The covers! with French flaps! are printed on Colorplan Pristine White Paper. Both paper and cover board are acid-free and Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified. ...

Product details

• Authors: Peter Handke, Handke Peter, Ralph Manheim, Handke Peter
• Assisted by: Ralph Manheim (Translation), Ralph Mannheim (Translation)
• Publisher: Pushkin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.01.2001
• EAN: 9781901285178
• ISBN: 978-1-901285-17-8
• No. of pages: 80
• Series: Pushkin Collection; Pushkin Collection
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Österreichische SchriftstellerInnen; Werke (div.), Handke, Peter