On a Dark Night I Left My Silent House (Magill’s Literary Annual 2001)
At a glance:
- Author: Peter Handke
- First Published: 1997
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The present
- Setting: Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, France, and Spain
- Principal Characters: A pharmacist, A poet, A superannuated Olympic champion athlete
- Genres: Long fiction, Frame story
- Subjects: Self-discovery, Twentieth century, Europe or Europeans, Alienation, Dreams, Storytelling, Hallucinations or illusions, 1990’s, Consciousness, Quest, Boredom, Pharmacies or pharmacists
- Locales: France, Spain, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Austria
Peter Handke is widely regarded as one of Germany’s most important writers. Since 1966, he has compiled an impressive list of writing credits, including novels, short- story collections, plays, poems, essays, and screenplays. With director Wim Wenders, he coauthored several screenplays, including the excellent Der Himmel über Berlin (Wings of Desire, 1987), in which the viewer is able to see the otherwise invisible guardian angels commiserating with mortals too wrapped up in their personal problems to appreciate the beauty surrounding them. On a Dark Night I Left My...
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