Peter Handke (Critical Survey of Drama)

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Although Peter Handke first achieved literary celebrity on the basis of his avant-garde plays, he is best known as a writer of fiction, having largely abandoned the theater early in his career. Most of Handke’s novels are quite short (several are of novella length), and their language is highly concentrated. As critic June Schlueter notes, while Handke’s awareness of the linguistic medium has remained constant, there has been a development in his fiction from an early emphasis on the limits of language and the failure of communication to an emphasis on...

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