Austria
Peter Handke
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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.
— p. 7
Peter Handke
Austrian writer, playwright and film director (born 1942)
- Fame65.3
- Momentum1.8
- Austria rank#54
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- Fame65.3
- Momentum1.8
- Austria rank#54
- Writers rank#191
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Born 1942 · age 84Austria
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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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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…
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Peter Handke
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My way of thinking is often so wrong, so untenable, because I think as if I were talking to someone else.
— p. 9
Peter Handke
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I was angry at her for not being what I wanted.
— p. 14
Peter Handke
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Tense, unnerved, and close to madness before writing—and when I read what I’ve written it looks so calm.
— p. 16
Peter Handke
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Proud of my near-madness, as if I had attained a goal.
— p. 16
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