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Sorrow Beyond Dreams: A Life Story
Sorrow Beyond Dreams: A Life Story | Peter Handke
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"The Sunday edition of the Karntner Volkszeitung carried the following item under 'Local News': 'In the village of A. (G. township), a housewife, aged 51, committed suicide on Friday night by taking an overdose of sleeping pills.'"So opens A Sorrow Beyond Dreams, the eminent Austrian novelist and playwright Peter Handke's reckoning with his mother's life--which spanned the rise of the Nazis, World War II, and postwar suffering--and death. Both stark and lyrical, full of love, anger, admiration, and a keen sense of history, this slim book reveals Handke at his most lucid and direct. It is the most moving and accessible work in his distinguished career; it is "indispensable" (Bill Marx, The Boston Globe).
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Incredibly sad and bleak, but an interesting history of Austria

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Continuing my Tour de Nobel...

This phrase sums up the impossibility that Handke scales and summits, but from the back route. Instead of trying to explain or tell about his mother, he carefully, cautiously, and stringently offers snippets of who she was. In so doing, he builds a monumental mountain for her. We climb it with him. We don‘t have to talk about it. We know.