Repetition (Magill’s Literary Annual 1989)
At a glance:
- Author: Peter Handke
- First Published: 1986
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: Summer, 1960
- Setting: Southern Austria (Carinthia) and northern Yugoslavia (Slovenia)
- Principal Characters: Filip Kobal, Gregor Kobal, Father, Mother, Sister
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: 1960’s, Traveling or travelers, Twentieth century, Self, Brothers and sisters, Eastern Europe or eastern Europeans, Quest
- Locales: Austria, Yugoslavia
A joke about the novels of Austrian writer Peter Handke goes something like, “Should you start reading them from the front or from the back?”—alluding to their almost plotless nature and to how each focuses minutely on the mundane observations of a central character, usually a self-absorbed loner. In such previous works as Die Stunde der wahren Empfindung (1975; A Moment of True Feeling, 1977), Slow Homecoming (1985), and Der Chinese des Schmerzes (1983; Across, 1986), Handke has spun out volumes of such observations. Having lived almost a decade...
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