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Great Fall (German, French)

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Great Fall

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"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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  • Author Peter Handke
  • ISBN13 9780857428417
  • ISBN10 0857428411
  • Pages 224
  • Published 2021
  • Publication date 24/04/2021
  • Language German, French
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Peter Handke

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Peter Handke (Griffen, 6 de diciembre de 1942) es un escritor austríaco, ganador del Premio Nobel de Literatura (2019). Estudió en un internado en Tanzember y sus estudios secundarios en Klangenfurt. En el año 1961 inició estudios de derecho en la Universidad de Graz que abandonó en 1965. Desde su juventud fue miembro de varios grupos de escritores. Se instaló en París en 1970 y tras viajar por varios lugares, retornó a Austria años más tarde.

Poeta, dramaturgo y novelista, la obra de Handke gira alrededor de la soledad y la falta de comunicación, con personajes angustiados y fuera de la sociedad, inmersos en problemas existenciales. Su producción literaria es muy extensa. Su primera novela se publicó en 1966, Los avispones y estrenó tres obras de teatro, entre las que se encontraba Insultos al público, una controvertida obra de antiteatro en la que cuatro actores discuten con el público.

En 1969 se presenta su primera colección de poemas y a partir de su narración detectivesca El miedo del portero al penalty (1970), escribió en colaboración con Wim Wenders el guion para la película que este último dirigió; una colaboración que se repitió en el film Cielo sobre Berlín (1987).
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