A Moment of True Feeling (Masterplots II: World Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Peter Handke
- First Published: 1975
- Type of Work: Philosophical realism
- Time of Work: The mid-1970’s
- Setting: Paris, France
- Principal Characters: Gregor Keuschnig, The Writer
- Genres: Long fiction, Philosophical realism
- Subjects: 1970’s, Self-discovery, Perception, France or French people, Alienation, Dreams, Paris
- Locales: Paris, France
The Novel
Gregor Keuschnig, a press attache with the Austrian Embassy in Paris, is married and has a four-year-old daughter. One morning, he has a dream in which he murders someone. From that point onward, his inner life is in upheaval, although he pretends to be normal and to go about his everyday business. He is often in an extremely agitated state, and he believes that he has fundamentally changed. Keuschnig realizes that he is divorced from his own “true feelings.” In this alienated condition, he wanders around the streets of Paris. As in Peter Handke’s...
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