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A sorrow beyond dreams

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An edition of Wunschloses Unglück (1972)

A sorrow beyond dreams

a life story

by

  • ★★★ 3.0 (1 rating)
  • 25 Want to read
  • 2 Currently reading
  • 1 Have read

The noted Austrian writer reconstructs and recalls the relationships, objects, daily affairs, dreams, pain, and despair of his mother's fifty-one years in a small village and the final reality of her suicide.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Language
English, German
Pages
69

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Subjects

Suicide victims Literatura Expressao Alema Biography Women Mothers and sons Suicide Authors, austrian Austria, biography German fiction Authors, biography Handke, peter, 1942- Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author) Case studies

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A Sorrow Beyond Dreams
February 27, 2006, Pushkin Press
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A sorrow beyond dreams: a life story
1975, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
in English and German
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A sorrow beyond dreams: a life story
1975, Souvenir Press
in English
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Wunschloses Unglück: Erzählung.
1974, Suhrkamp
in German
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Wunschloses Unglück: Erzählung
1972, Residenz Verlag
in German

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Edition Notes

Translation of Wunschloses Unglück.

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New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
838/.9/1409, B
Library of Congress
PT2668.A5 W813 1975, PT2668.A5W813 1975

The Physical Object

Pagination
69 p. ;
Number of pages
69

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL5183322M
ISBN 10
0374267200
LCCN
75001183
OCLC/WorldCat
1175320
LibraryThing
154246
Goodreads
1032358

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Work ID
OL854276W

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Work Description

Kein Urteil, kein literarisches Denkmal für eine Mutter, kein abgeschlossenes Bild, nach dessen Beendigung der Autor und mit ihm der Leser befreit aufatmen könnte, sondern die Beschreibung einer grausigen offenen Wunde. - Helmut Scheffel - Back cover. Peter Handke's mother, Maria Handke, committed suicide in 1971. Within a few weeks, Peter Handke set about the task of reconstructing his mother's life in the form of a narrative. As he explains in the story, he did this partly in order to come to terms with his own grief, by attempting to make sense of the path her life had taken, and partly to give substance to her existence by creating a memorial. Handke constantly assesses the course of his mother's life in relation to the social, historical, political, and cultural influences to which she was exposed. - Introduction of Manchester University Press edition (1993).

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