Afternoon of a Writer

by Peter Handke

Book Overview

In Nobel Prize-winning author Peter Handke's The Afternoon of a Writer, a writer, fearful of losing his abilities and hence his connection with the world, takes an afternoon walk and has several... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374102074
• ISBN13: 9780374102074
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Great little Handke!

Great little prose musings by Handke. One of his most accesible books. Needles to praise that hector among the translators, the one and only Ralph Manheim (of the L.F.Céline's fame,among others). I will just quote one thought from this brilliant Austrian maverick writer: "What he had written that day was irrelevant and meaningless; he should have never written it, for to write was criminal; to produce a work of art, a book, was presumption, more damnable than any other sin."