Once Again for Thucydides: Fiction

by Peter Handke

Book Overview

Once Again for Thucydides is a collection of seventeen "micro-epics" written by Peter Handke on trips around the world, from the Balkans to the Pyrenees, from Salzburg to the sea of Hokkaido in Japan.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811213889
• ISBN13: 9780811213882
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 90 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.7" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Beautifully written

This short read (90 pages) is a wonderful collection of descriptions Handke made while visiting different cities. Each description reveals an indulgent use of visual and even auditory imagery to open up the natural world and its influence on the observer.Handke's fairy tale of an ash tree in Munich is an especially intriguing version of a classic genre.

Beauty of language - clarity of thought

These "travel" essays verge on being prose poems. Peter Handke uses close observation of the world around him to weave an image of the world within - both personal and universal. In this way he produces a remarkable study on the human condition. Add to your must read list especially if you have any fondness for M. Duras or A. Ernaux.