My Year in the No-Man's-Bay

by Peter Handke

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Handke tells the story of an Austrian writer - a man much like Handke himself - who undergoes a "metamorphosis" from self-assured artist into passive "observer and chronicler". He explores the world and describes his many severed relationships, from his tenuous contact with his son, to a failed marriage to "the Catalan", to a doomed love affair with a former Miss Yugoslavia. As the writer sifts through his memories, he is also under pressure to complete his next novel, but he cannot decide show more how to come to terms with both the complexity of the world and the inability of his novel to reflect it. show less

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Il mio sogno entrò in fiaba e divenne terra.
(pagina 500)


In lieblicher Blaue bluhet mit dem metallenen Dache der Kirckturm…
(Nel soave azzurro brilla con il suo tetto metallico il campanile…)


Hölderlin

Dove abita poeticamente l’uomo?

Quando l’abitare ci conduce al tempo, al lavoro, al quotidiano, il poeticamente contraddice il fare (ossia l’abitare)…

E a cosa ci porta questa riflessione?

Gli angeli tutti sono presi
da un nuovo turbamento:
certo non fu mai cosí intenso
e vago il desiderio.
Forse qualcosa ora s’annunzia
che in sogno tu comprendi.
Salute a te, l’anima vede:
ora sei pronta e attendi.
Tu sei la grande, eccelsa porta,
verranno a aprirti presto.
Tu che il mio canto intendi sola:
in te si perde la mia
show more parola
come nella foresta.


(Rilke)

E cosa ci porta questa ulteriore riflessione? Chi ascolta e chi intende?

Hellooo!!!
Anybody home???



E non era già accaduto che proprio soltanto grazie a uno stare a guardare si fosse creato qualcosa, un oggetto, una presenza di fronte, un nesso, addirittura una legittimità? (pagina 26)

Perché, del resto, non per la prima volta, mi sembra discutibile chiamare "io" quello che ero in passato, non solo il bambino, ma anche l'uomo dell'anno scorso. La mia incertezza sull'"io" è ugualmente grande per tutti gli anni, … (pagina 97)


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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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Canonical title*
Mon année dans la baie de personne. Un conte des temps nouveaux
Original title
Mein Jahr in der Niemandsbucht. Ein Märchen aus den neuen Zeiten
Original publication date
1994 (1e édition originale allemande, Suhrkamp Verlag Frankfurt am Main) (1e édition originale allemande, Suhrkamp Verlag Frankfurt am Main); 1997-02-21 (1e traduction et édition française, Du monde entier, Gallimard) (1e traduction et édition française, Du monde entier, Gallimard); 1999-03-03 (Réédition française, Folio, 3172, Gallimard) (Réédition française, Folio, 3172, Gallimard)
Important places
France; Île-de-France, France; Chaville, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Epigraph*
SCIS LEBEDUS SIT GABIIS DESERTIOR ATQUE
FIDENIS VICUS ; TAMEN ILLIC VIVERE VELLEM,
OBLITUSQUE MEORUM, OBLIVISCENDUS ET ILLIS
NEPTUNEM PROCUL E TERRA SPECTARE FURENTEM

Tu sais que Lebedos est un village
plus... (show all) perdu que Gabies et Fidène.
Et cependant c'est là que je voudrais vivre,
oublier les miens, oublié d'eux aussi,
et regarder au loin, depuis la terre, les fureurs de Neptune.
Horace
Γίνεσθε δὲ ποιηταὶ λόγου ϰαὶ μὴ μόνον ἀϰροαταί

Devenez des acteurs de la parole et non pas seulement des auditeurs.
Épître de Jacques, I, 22
Dedication*
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First words*
1997

I
Qui non ? Qui ?

J'ai fait une fois dans ma vie, jusqu'à présent, l'expérience de la métamorphose. Auparavant, elle n'était pour moi qu'un simple mot, et lorsqu'elle commença,... (show all) non pas doucement, mais d'un seul coup, je la pris d'abord pour ma fin. [...]
Original language*
Allemand
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Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
DDC/MDS
833.914Literature & rhetoricGerman & related literaturesGerman fiction1900-1900-19901945-1990
LCC
PT2668 .A5 .M4513Language and LiteratureGerman, Dutch and Scandinavian literaturesGerman literatureIndividual authors or works1961-2000
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