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Erich Wolfgang Skwara (review date Winter 1998)

SOURCE: A review of In einer dunklen Nacht ging ich aus meinem stillen Haus, in World Literature Today, Vol. 72, No. 1, Winter, 1998, pp. 123-4.

[In the following review, Skwara offers a positive assessment of In einer dunklen Nacht ging ich aus meinem stillen Haus.]

Each one of Peter Handke's books—or so it seems in retrospect—has taught its readers a lesson. Where the author’s youthful works contained lessons in a daredevil kind of genius, extending and jumping limits and borders of language, content and style, his later books offered firm proof of the possibility for renewal and transformation. Now, with his latest novel [In einer dunklen Nacht ging ich aus meinem stillen Haus], Handke seems to be teaching his readership how to take wing and fly.

The recent completion of a thousand-page novel, Mein Jahr in der Niemandsbucht (1995; see WLT 69:3, p....

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1. Introduction
2. Principal Works
3. Criticism
   1. Michael Hays (essay date January 1981)
   2. June Schlueter (essay date January 1981)
   3. Bruce Cook (review date 26 August 1984)
   4. D. J. Enright (review date 14 August 1986)
   5. Linda C. DeMeritt (essay date 1987)
   6. Michael Linstead (essay date 1987)
   7. Gail Pool (review date 8 July 1988)
   8. Paul Oldfield (review date 5 August 1988)
   9. Ursula Hegi (review date 16 July 1989)
   10. Mark Kamine (review date 2-16 October 1989)
   11. John Leonard (review date 4 December 1989)
   12. John Updike (review date 25 December 1989)
   13. Erich Wolfgang Skwara (review date Winter 1990)
   14. Erich Wolfgang Skwara (review date Summer 1990)
   15. Ursula Hegi (review date 1 July 1990)
   16. Hugo Caviola (essay date Autumn 1990)
   17. Eva-Maria Metcalf (essay date Autumn 1990)
   18. Michael Hofmann (review date 24 May 1991)
   19. J. J. White (review date 4 October 1991)
   20. Erich Wolfgang Skwara (review date Autumn 1992)
   21. Gitta Honegger (essay date 1993)
   22. Thomas H. Falk (review date Summer 1993)
   23. Erich Wolfgang Skwara (review date Autumn 1993)
   24. Richard Arthur Firda (essay date 1993)
   25. Times Literary Supplement (review date 16 September 1994)
   26. Gitta Honegger (review date 1995)
   27. Erich Wolfgang Skwara (review date Summer 1995)
   28. Edward Timms (review date 26 April 1996)
   29. Theodore Ziolkowski (review date Winter 1997)
   30. Tom Sellar (review date 1997)
   31. David Rieff (review date 12 January 1997)
   32. Theodore Ziolkowski (review date Summer 1997)
   33. Erich Wolfgang Skwara (review date Winter 1998)
   34. Thomas McGonigle (review date 20 September 1998)
   35. William H. Gass (review date 29 November 1998)
4. Further Reading
5. Copyright