On a Dark Night I Left My Silent House | On a Dark Night I Left My Silent House

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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...

On a Dark Night I Left My Silent House | On a Dark Night I Left My Silent House

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