Binding: Hardcover
Description: Two novellas by Peter Handke his first works to be published since he won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature. The Second Sword and My Day in the Other Land are two novellas by the 2019 Nobel laureate Peter Handke. The first picks up the story where Handke's last work of fiction The Fruit Thief (described in The New York Times as an experience of unadulterated literature ) left off. Here a man has returned to his home in the suburbs of Paris only to soon set out again. Why? We learn over the course of a story redolent of Handke's harrowing A Sorrow Beyond Dreams that he is seeking to avenge his mother who has been unjustly denounced in the pages of a newspaper. The Second Sword is a suspenseful work of self - examination: Will the narrator's journey end in him throwing down the gauntlet? My Day in the Other Land is the first work written by Handke after he was awarded the Nobel Prize. Evoking imagery from the Bible and classical mythology it portrays a man who has been possessed by demons causing him to rage endlessly against the inhabitants of his rural village. Aided by his sister he embarks on a journey to a lake on whose opposite shore lies the other land. What ensues is an exorcism of sorts and one of Handke's most evocative and original endings. Together The Second Sword and My Day in the Other Land are essential new entries in a body of work like no other.
Title: The Second Sword: A Tale From The Merry Month Of May And My Day In The Other Land: A Tale Of Demons
Author(s): Winston Peter Handke; Translated From The German By Krishna
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Inc
Barcode: 9780374601447
Pages: 192 Pages
Publication Date: 2/6/2024
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction