Here comes Handke
In August, Peter Handke scholar Michael Roloff announced a lecture series on his hero. He appears to have posted some of them on his Handke site (you’ll understand why I use the word ‘appears’ when you visit it). This coincides with an enthusiastic review of Handke’s latest novel in the TLS this week (not online, and worse, the novel is not translated). Roloff talks about this novel too. Be warned though, his English prose is, er, charmingly Germanic. And he will insist that Handke’s greatest novel is called The Repetition in English. It isn’t. It’s simply Repetition. Get this one before any other if you can. It’s the only novel I’ve read five times.
Roloff’s introduction reasserts the incontrovertible fact about last year’s Nobel Prize. It wouldn’t bother me but for the lack of imminent translations. It really isn’t fair. Sulk.
Other Splinters posts of interest:
- New Handke novel!
- Through the Barren Landscape of Nothingness
- Shelfish
- Peter Handke It�s unlikely that you�ve heard of P…
- Repeating the name: Peter Handke
