Screen LibraryA sorrow beyond dreams : a life story /
Peter Handke's mother was an invisible woman. Throughout her life--which spanned the Nazi era, the war, and the postwar consumer economy--she struggled to maintain appearances, only to arrive at a terrible recognition: "I'm not human any more." Not long after, she killed herself...
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: |
2012. ©2002 |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: |
English German |
| Edition: | Paperback edition. |
| Series: |
FSG classics
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| Summary: |
Peter Handke's mother was an invisible woman. Throughout her life--which spanned the Nazi era, the war, and the postwar consumer economy--she struggled to maintain appearances, only to arrive at a terrible recognition: "I'm not human any more." Not long after, she killed herself with an overdose of sleeping pills. In A Sorrow Beyond Dreams her son sits down to record what he knows, or thinks he knows, about his mother's life and death before, in his words, "the dull speechlessness--the extreme speechlessness" of grief takes hold forever. And yet the experience of speechlessness, as it marks |
| Item Description: |
Translation of: Wunschloses Unglück. Originally published in German in 1972. English translation published in hardcover in 1974. Published with this introduction, 2002. |
| Carrier Form: | xv, 69 pages ; 21 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780374533649 0374533644 |
| Index Number: | PT2668 |
| CLC: | I521.45 |
| Call Number: | I521.45/H236-4 |