Afternoon of a Writer
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In Nobel Prize-winning author Peter Handke's The Afternoon of a Writer, a writer, fearful of losing his abilities and hence his connection with the world, takes an afternoon walk and has several... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0374102074
ISBN13:9780374102074
Release Date:January 1989
Publisher:Farrar Straus Giroux
Length:96 Pages
Weight:0.50 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 5.5" x 8.3"
Customer Reviews
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Great little Handke!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 18 years ago
Great little prose musings by Handke. One of his most accesible books. Needles to praise that hector among the translators, the one and only Ralph Manheim (of the L.F.Céline's fame,among others). I will just quote one thought from this brilliant Austrian maverick writer: "What he had written that day was irrelevant and meaningless; he should have never written it, for to write was criminal; to produce a work of art, a book, was presumption, more damnable than any other sin."
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