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Sto caricando le informazioni... Der Chinese des Schmerzes (1983)di Peter Handke
German Literature (188) Sto caricando le informazioni...
Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Andreas Loser teaches classical languages and is obsessed with thresholds. He is a contemplative intellectual, reclusive, emotionally distant from his family (from whom he is separated), hesitant to commit himself to relationships, and in the habit of examining his every move before he makes it. He quotes Virgil. And yet, on an otherwise unremarkable evening while walking to his regularly scheduled card game, he notices a swastika spray painted on the trunk of a tree, finds the offender in the act of defacement, kills him, and dumps the body off the side of a cliff. After this his engagement with life and the act of living is greatly enhanced. A less controlled aspect of his personality emerges. He becomes by turns impulsive, moody, unreliable and deceptive, and the reader begins to wonder if perhaps the act of murder has somehow completed him as a human being. Loser's narrative is crammed with descriptive detail. With long lavish sentences and close attention to geography and to the natural world, Handke eloquently evokes life in small town Austria and in the rural borderlands near the German frontier. A self-conscious story narrated by a sophisticated man who seems well acquainted with himself, and yet who has no idea what he is capable of. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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Handke's novel tells the story of a quiet, organized classics teacher named Andreas Loser. One night, on the way to his regularly scheduled card game, he passes a tree that has been defaced by a swastika. Impulsively yet deliberately, he tracks down the defacer and kills him. With this act, Loser has crossed an invisble threshold, and will be stuck in this secular purgatory until he can confess his crime. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)833.914Literature German literature and literatures of related languages German fiction Modern period (1900-) 1900-1990 1945-1990Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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Die Landschaft um Salzburg im Winter: die Bäume, die Sträucher, das Wasser des Moores im Nebel, die Bergformen wie sie erscheinen in der Dämmerung, die nassen Drähte im Scheinwerferlicht, die Spinnen mit den langen Beinen („Weberknechte, Patrone der Schwellensucher“ sagte ich in der nächtlichen Küche ... indem sie mich zum Aufschauen bringen und innehalten lassen unterstützen sie andere Sonnenuhren, das „Zeithaben“ (42)), die Stille, aber dann auch die Abends sich leerende Stadt, die hässlichen Treppen und überall Schwellen („Übergang zwischen Entbehrung und Schatz“ (40)). Auch im Leben die Schwellen von Schuld zu Sühne dieses Schwellen-Läufers: „Es ist dir anzumerken, dass du außerhalb des Rechts stehst, und dass dieser Zustand ein Art Leiden ist. Ich vertraue dir nicht, und ich vertraue dir“ (217), wird ihm gesagt.
Handkes unvergleichliche Dichte der Sprache!
Ein schöner Leineneinband in seiner Schlichtheit. Auch ist es genäht. Nichteinmal ein Barcode verunziert den Umschlag. Die kleine Zeichnung auf dem Einband: ein Baum, ein Stein, zwei laufende, tanzende Beine; weibliche, nicht die des Läufers!
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