Slow Homecoming (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Peter Handke
- First Published: 1985
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Philosophical realism
- Time of Work: Late 1970’s and early 1980’s
- Genres: Long fiction, Philosophical realism
- Subjects: 1970’s, North America or North Americans, Self-discovery, United States or Americans, Parents and children, Traveling or travelers, France or French people, Nature, Europe or Europeans, Art or artists, 1980’s, Single parents or single-parent families, Painting or painters, Germany or German people, Alaska, Arctic, Geology or geologists
- Locales: New York, NY, France, Germany, Denver, CO, Alaska, Northern California
Places Discussed
*Alaska. Northern wilderness country where Sorger, a deeply alienated person seeking some kind of personal salvation or healing, is conducting geological surveys. In a clearly existential quest to find forms or patterns that will guide or give meaning to his life, he sketches the landscape. His sketching—making marks on paper with a pencil—becomes a literary symbol for author Peter Handke’s own philosophically self-conscious (and yet highly personal) activity of writing: the imaginative creation of aesthetic forms by which can he can somehow orient his...
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