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I came to this slim novella through Maggie Nelson, who recommends it in RED PARTS. It is the story of Handke's mother's suicide, and his rapid attempts to capture it and her life through writing. Handke is a strange, wonderful writer and I raced through the early part of this with pleasure, as he co Leggi tutto

A HYMN TO TRAGEDY It is a difficult proposition to write a memoir about the death of one’s mother, and that too when she commits suicide at the age of 51 ( I have a somber association with that number as my mother too passed away at that age) . A Sorrow beyond dreams is Handke's poignant account of Leggi tutto

What’s in a name – this is described as a semi-autobiographical novel but it’s really a memoir, just that, written in the white hot anguish left behind by Peter Handke’s mother who committed suicide at the age of 51 in 1971. This memoir was published the following year. The very ordinary miserable s Leggi tutto

What does it mean to write about Death, not abstract death, or death of some invented Other, but Death in its most personal, intimate, self-shattering form? How, when the act of writing, of composition, is inherently distancing, can one write about that which is closest to us? The relationship of Li Leggi tutto

“My sense of horror makes me feel better: at last my boredom is gone; an unresisting body, no more exhausting distances, a painless passage of time,” Peter Handke writes in this distilling memoir about his mother. A Sorrow Beyond Dreams is his attempt at reconciling with his mother’s suicide, his pi Leggi tutto

The half-lit room. The cream-colored paint on the walls reflecting barely enough light to see. The tiled floor, absent of dirt or dust. The cot which lies empty, barren and untouched. All of these circumstances, all of these facts can be taken as a symbol for the hurt, pain and utter emptiness Handk Leggi tutto

همین که کلمه فقر به میان می آید، همیشه به این فکر می کنم که یکی بود، یکی نبود! و تا حد زیادی هم آدم آن را از دهان کسانی می شوند که در گذشته به آن دچار بوده اند، کلمه ای متصل به کودکی. یعنی نه اینکه "من فقیر بودم"، بلکه "پدر و مادرم انسان های فقیری بودند". توضیح واضحاتی شترپلنگ به قصد رنگ و لعاب زدن Leggi tutto

February 16, 2020 - the more I read of Handke, the more it seems that the death of his Slovenian mother is the key to the whole edifice. In addition to being a masterpiece in its own right, this book helps unlock the mysteries of Repetition and the Moravian Night. Clues to his strange and twisted po Leggi tutto

چگونه می‌توان در پناه ادبیات تمام لحظات فلاکت‌بار یک فرد را کسی‌که به آن تعلق خاطر داری یا نداری را به تصویر کشید و وصف کرد؟ 📖کتاب درباره‌ی مادری‌ست که بجز چند جمله‌ی کوتاه و دوران بیماری و سرخوردگی‌اش، خاطره‌ی دیگری برای فرزندش به جا نگذاشته و حالا با خبردار شدن از مرگ او فرزندش تصمیم به روایت داستا Leggi tutto

Barely remembered reading this in 1996, back when I read everything Handke had published. Read a yellowed mass market paperback with a cartoon image of the author on the cover ( Three by Peter Handke ). Reread the novella in this snazzy < 75 pg. standalone edition -- for what felt like the first time Leggi tutto