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Two Novels by Peter Handke: A Moment of True Feeling / The Left-Handed Woman
A Moment of True Feeling / The Left-Handed Woman
160 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published December 1, 1979
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Peter Handke
303 books1,143 followersPeter Handke (* 6. Dezember 1942 in Griffen, Kärnten) ist ein österreichischer Schriftsteller und Übersetzer.
Peter Handke is an Avant-garde Austrian novelist and playwright. His body of work has been awarded numerous literary prizes, including the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2019. He has also collaborated with German director Wim Wenders, writing the script for The Wrong Move and co-writing the screenplay for Wings of Desire.
Peter Handke is an Avant-garde Austrian novelist and playwright. His body of work has been awarded numerous literary prizes, including the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2019. He has also collaborated with German director Wim Wenders, writing the script for The Wrong Move and co-writing the screenplay for Wings of Desire.
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February 1, 2008
This awful edition (the kind with a bad cover and one that hurts your thumb to keep open while reading the words nearly in the spine) includes two great novels: "A Moment of True Feeling" and "The Left-Handed Woman".
In "A Moment", a man dreams of committing murder, then wakes to feel emptiness about his life. He wanders the streets of Paris trying to find meaning. It's full of rich commonplace sensation thats under our nose everyday. He watches people, watches things happen, listens to things, senses. My favorite kind of narrative...in which nothing really happens but everything does. He really describes events with their own inevitable action that his character can't seem to find.
A "Left-Handed Woman" is more about a woman facing loneliness when she sends her husband away. Again full of sensation. But really reveals how banal things get without everyone else mucking things up. The character becomes so indecisive and unresolved.
In "A Moment", a man dreams of committing murder, then wakes to feel emptiness about his life. He wanders the streets of Paris trying to find meaning. It's full of rich commonplace sensation thats under our nose everyday. He watches people, watches things happen, listens to things, senses. My favorite kind of narrative...in which nothing really happens but everything does. He really describes events with their own inevitable action that his character can't seem to find.
A "Left-Handed Woman" is more about a woman facing loneliness when she sends her husband away. Again full of sensation. But really reveals how banal things get without everyone else mucking things up. The character becomes so indecisive and unresolved.
May 28, 2010
2 more wonderful stories by Handke: A Moment of True Feeling & The Left-Handed Woman. I especially loved the second one which is one of the best things I've ever read about the dissolution of a marriage from a woman's perspective.
October 20, 2019
Just boring.
February 7, 2025
The left-handed woman does not give herself away and will never be humiliated!
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