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Short Letter, Long Farewell (German: Der kurze Brief zum langen Abschied) is a 1972 novel by the Austrian writer Peter Handke. It tells the story of a young Austrian writer who travels across the United States in search of his wife from whom he is estranged.
- Peter Handke
- 1972
1 gen 2001 · A sort of compact bildungsroman for a rather neurotic quarter-life crisis, Short Letter, Long Farewell is, on the surface, a quest: a road trip West across America—with nods toward noir, John Ford, and American history as a whole—in hopes of personal peace and freedom.
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8 ott 2018 · Short Letter, Long Farewell accompanies the modern hero of the novel on this arduous journey to himself; he has not yet found his niche. In a surge of unbearable homesickness, he makes an...
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- Heike Mund
3 set 2009 · Short letter, long farewell. by. Handke, Peter. Publication date. 1974. Publisher. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Collection. internetarchivebooks; americana; printdisabled.
About Short Letter, Long Farewell. By Nobel Prize Winner Peter Handke. Short Letter, Long Farewell is one the most inventive and exhilarating of the great Peter Handke’s novels. Full of seedy noir atmospherics and boasting an air of generalized delirium, the book starts by introducing us to a nameless young German who has just arrived in ...
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31 mar 2009 · By Nobel Prize Winner Peter HandkeShort Letter, Long Farewell is one the most inventive and exhilarating of the great Peter Handke’s novels. Full of seedy noir atmospherics and boasting an...
Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke's novel Short Letter, Long Farewell tells the story of a young Austrian--evidently modeled on the author--on a harrowing month's journey across the United States. The book opens in Providence, where a letter awaits the un-named narrator from his estranged wife, Judith.
