Once Again for Thucydides (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Peter Handke
- First Published: 1995
- Type of Work: Diaries and essays
- Time of Work: 1987-1990
- Setting: Switzerland, the former Yugoslavia, Greece, Japan, Spain, Italy, Austria, France, and Germany
- Genres: Nonfiction, Essays, Diary
- Subjects: Language or languages, Traveling or travelers, Self, Authors or writers, Europe or Europeans, Literature, Poetry or poets, Japan or Japanese people
- Locales: France, Spain, Germany, Italy, Japan, Greece, Switzerland, Austria, Yugoslavia
At first glance, the reference to the fifth century b.c.e. Athenian historian Thucydides in the title of Peter Handke’s book seems to be a red herring by a deconstructionist, postmodernist German-language author noted for his introspective language. Only two of the seventeen essays in this book even mention Thucydides, and then only in their titles. Neither deals directly with the historian. The first essay, “For Thucydides,” describes butterflies on a spring day in Felsenberg, Switzerland. In the third essay, “Sheet- Lightning Epopee or Once Again for Thucydides,” Handke...
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