Slow Homecoming (Masterplots II: World Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Peter Handke
- First Published: 1985
- Type of Work: Philosophical realism
- Time of Work: The late 1970’s and the early 1980’s
- Setting: The United States and France
- Principal Characters: Valentin Sorger, The Narrator, The Adult, The Child
- 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
The Novels
Slow Homecoming consists of three, very loosely connected texts—The Long Way Around, The Lesson of Mont-Sainte-Victoire, and Child Story—which are veiled in fiction but remain strongly autobiographical. The various characters in the stories are stylized variations of the author’s persona. The three texts document a spiritual and artistic quest. The first work is a third-person narrative that treats the character of Valentin Sorger, a European geologist who is working above the Arctic Circle in Alaska. It consists largely of...
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