Crossing the Sierra de Gredos
by Peter Handke
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On the outskirts of a northwestern European riverport city lives a powerful woman banker, a public figure admired and hated in equal measure, who has decided to turn from the worlds of high finance and modern life to embark on a quest. Having commissioned a famous writer to undertake her authentic biography, she journeys through the Spanish Sierra de Gredos and the region of La Mancha to meet him. As she travels by allterrain vehicle, bus, and finally on foot, the nameless protagonist show more encounters five way stations that become the stuff of her biography and the biography of the modern world, a world in which genuine images and unmediated experiences have been exploited and falsified by commercialization and by the voracious mass media. show lessTags
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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
- Crossing the Sierra de Gredos
- Original title
- Der Bildverlust oder Durch die Sierra de Gredos
- Original publication date
- 2002
- Important places
- Spain; La Mancha, Castile-La Mancha, Spain
- Epigraph
- You will go
will return not
die in combat
- Latin oricale
Have pity on her
who travels on such a day - - Ibn ‘Arabi
But perhaps knighthood
and enchantments nowsays must take paths
different from those of the ancient
-Miguel de Cervantes, El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quioxte
de la Mancha - First words
- She wished this were her last journey.
- Quotations*
- Utilizzo quello che so come trampolino per trovare un' altra realtà
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- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
- DDC/MDS
- 833.914 — Literature & rhetoric German & related literatures German fiction 1900- 1900-1990 1945-1990
- LCC
- PT2668 .A5 .B5513 — Language and Literature German, Dutch and Scandinavian literatures German literature Individual authors or works 1961-2000
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