Dec 19, 2009

The Afternoon of a Writer | The Afternoon of a Writer

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Author: Peter Handke
First Published: 1987
Type of Work: Novella
Time of Work: The 1980’s
Setting: An unnamed city
Principal Characters: A Writer, An Old Woman, A Drunk, A Translator
Genres: Short fiction
Subjects: Suffering, Authors or writers, Communication, Guilt, 1980’s, Alcoholism or alcoholics, Substance abuse, Creative process, Fame, Romanticism

Peter Handke has seldom focused much of his attention as a writer on plot structure and the craft of storytelling as it has been traditionally understood. In recent years particularly he has been preoccupied with the mental mechanics of the writing process, a process perceived as highly idiosyncratic yet beyond the writer’s control and reliant on its own momentum in its most productive stages. For Handke, as for a number of Austrian predecessors in the twentieth century, this focus has been enriched by an acute awareness of the complexities and problems of the writer’s relationship...

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The Afternoon of a Writer | The Afternoon of a Writer

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