Handke, Peter (Vol. 8) - Handke, Peter 1942–
Handke, Peter 1942–
Austrian-born novelist, playwright, poet, and essayist, Handke emerged in the sixties as the leading practitioner of the experimental novel in Germany. Then, with the translation of The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick, Handke's literary reputation took hold in America. To date, he has had five plays published in this country. Handke's novels reveal the influence of the existentialists, particularly Sartre, while aspects of the French "new novel" are also discernible in some of his writings. (See also CLC, Vol. 5.)
Human loneliness, human identity and personality, memory, feelings, indoctrination—all these emerge as leading themes in [Die Unvernunftigen Sterben aus], which is set in a modern business world totally stripped of every human and humanitarian element. In extremely fast-moving dialogues periodically interrupted by obscenities, economic practices designed to tighten control of the market and...
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