Walk about the Villages: A Dramatic Poem

by Peter Handke

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This is the fourth part of Handke's "homecoming cycle", whose other three parts can be found under the American title "A Slow Homecoming". The underlying story line could not be simpler. The "prodigal" writer Gregor returns to his home village. He and his brother Hans, a construction worker, and his shopkeeper sister have a dispute over the disposition of the house which the parents had built and the land which they had cleared with their own hands many years before. Within this show more straightforward conflict, Handke touches upon almost every aspect of our existence. It is a lyrical play, a poetic drama on the order of Thornton Wilder's Our Town, and Dylan Thomas' Under Milk Wood. It is an "Everyman and Everywoman" dramatic poem for our time. show less

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Peter Handke was born in Griffen, Austria on December 6, 1942. He studied law at Graz University from 1961 to 1965. He is a playwright, novelist, poet, and essayist. His plays include Offending the Audience, Kaspar, and The Ride across Lake Constance. His novels include The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick, The Left-Handed Woman, and A Sorrow show more beyond Dreams. He was awarded the Buchner Prize in 1973 and refused to accept the Kafka Prize in 1979. (Bowker Author Biography) Peter Handke was born in Griffen, Austria, in 1942. His many works include Absence (FSG, 1990), The Jukebox and Other Essays on Storytelling (FSG, 1994), and, most recently, My Year in the No-Man's-Bay (FSG, 1998). (Publisher Provided) show less

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Manheim, Ralph (Translator)
Roloff, Michael (Translator)

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Canonical title
Walk about the Villages: A Dramatic Poem
Original title
Über die Dörfer: Dramatisches Gedicht
Alternate titles
The Long Way Round: A Dramatic Poem
Original publication date
1981
Quotations*
Tramandate il fruscio. Raccontate l' orizzonte.
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Fiction and Literature
DDC/MDS
832.914Literature & rhetoricGerman & related literaturesGerman drama1900-1900-19901945-1999
LCC
PT2668 .A5 .U24Language and LiteratureGerman, Dutch and Scandinavian literaturesGerman literatureIndividual authors or works1961-2000

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