The Great Fall: A Story (German List) - Hardcover

Handke, Peter; Winston, Krishna

 
9780857425348: The Great Fall: A Story (German List)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 085742534X ISBN 13: 9780857425348
Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

"On the day of the Great Fall he left nothing, nothing at all behind." The latest work by Peter Handke, one of our greatest living writers, chronicles a day in life of an aging actor as he makes his way on foot from the outskirts of a great metropolis into its center. He is scheduled to receive a prestigious award that evening from the country's president, and the following day he is supposed to start shooting for a film - perhaps his last - in which he plays a man who runs amok. While passing through a forest, he encounters the outcasts of the society - homeless people and migrants - but he keeps trudging along, traversing a suburb whose inhabitants are locked in petty but mortal conflicts, crossing a seemingly unbridgeable superhighway, and wandering into an abandoned railyard, where police, unused to pedestrians, detain him briefly on suspicion of terrorism. Things don't improve when he reaches the heart of the city. There he can't help but see the alienation characteristic of its residents and the omnipresent malign influence of electronic technology. What, then, is the "Great Fall"? What is this heart-wrenching, humorous, distinctively attentive narrative trying to tell us? As usual, Peter Handke, deeply introspective and powerfully critical of the world around him, leaves it to the reader to figure out.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Peter Handke, born in 1942, is one of the most prolific, well-known, and respected authors writing in German today. Krishna Winston teaches German and environmental studies at Wesleyan University in Connecticut.
 

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Verlag
University of Chicago Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
085742534X
ISBN 13 
9780857425348
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
224
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