Article: Peter Handke.Der Bildverlust oder Durch die Sierra de Gredos.(Book Review)

Frankfurt a.M Suhrkamp. 2002. 759 pages. 29.90. [euro] ISBN 3-518-41310-4

WITH THIS NOVEL--and let us remember how sparingly this author terms his narrative prose as novels--Peter Handke has written his magnum opus, not just in terms of length, but equally in terms of spiritual scope and aesthetic innovation. If his early fame rested on his bold experimentation with style and his new ways of saying the hitherto unexpressed, achievements that widened the very notion of literature, the author now has returned to his probing of the possibilities of his craft, but--far removed from old daredevil tricks--based on masterful maturity and authority as a writer. Handke's ...

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