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Something wrong?An Austrian writer who spent decades dismantling the theatre and the novel itself - then blew up his literary standing by returning a major German prize to protest NATO and defending Serbian nationalism through the Yugoslav Wars.
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, A fine thing: suddenly to forget about one’s history, one’s past, to stop feeling that one’s present happiness is endangered by what one used to be.
My way of thinking is often so wrong, so untenable, because I think as if I were talking to someone else.
I was angry at her for not being what I wanted.
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Peter Handke was born 6 December 1942 and rose in the late 1960s as an avant-garde force with plays like Offending the Audience (1966), where actors insulted the crowd and questioned what theatre even was, and Kaspar (1967). His novels - deadpan, ultra-objective accounts of characters in extreme mental states - include The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick (1970) and The Left-Handed Woman (1976); after his mother's suicide in 1971, he wrote the novella A Sorrow Beyond Dreams (1972). A recurring obsession: how ordinary language and rational order deaden and distort experience. He co-founded a publishing house, wrote screenplays for Wim Wenders (Wings of Desire, The Wrong Move), and won the Georg Büchner Prize in 1973 - then returned the prize money in 1999 to protest NATO's bombing of Yugoslavia. His public support of Serbian nationalism during and after the Yugoslav Wars brought lasting controversy, but in 2019 the Nobel committee awarded him the prize in literature for work that "with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience."
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