Name: The Second Sword: A Tale From the Merry Month of May, and my day in the Other Land: A Tale of Demons: Two Novellas (en Inglés)
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Author: Handke Peter
ISBN: 9780374601447

portada The Second Sword: A Tale From the Merry Month of May, and my day in the Other Land: A Tale of Demons: Two Novellas (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Farrar Straus & Giroux

Autor

Handke Peter

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

192

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

ISBN13

9780374601447

The Second Sword: A Tale From the Merry Month of May, and my day in the Other Land: A Tale of Demons: Two Novellas (en Inglés)

Handke Peter (Autor) · Farrar Straus & Giroux · Tapa Dura

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Reseña del libro "The Second Sword: A Tale From the Merry Month of May, and my day in the Other Land: A Tale of Demons: Two Novellas (en Inglés)"

Two novellas by Peter Handke--his first new works since he won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature. The Second Sword and My Day in the Other Land are two new novellas by the 2019 Nobel laureate Peter Handke. The first picks up the story where Handke's last work of fiction, The Fruit Thief (described in The New York Times as "an experience of unadulterated literature"), left off. Here a man has returned to his home in the suburbs of Paris, only to soon set out again. Why? We learn, over the course of a story redolent of Handke's harrowing A Sorrow Beyond Dreams, that he is seeking to avenge his mother, who has been unjustly denounced in the pages of a newspaper. The Second Sword is a suspenseful work of self-examination: Will the narrator's journey end in him throwing down the gauntlet? My Day in the Other Land is Handke's most recently published work--and the first to be written after he was awarded the Nobel Prize. Evoking imagery from the Bible and classical mythology, it portrays a man who has been possessed by demons, causing him to rage endlessly against the inhabitants of his rural village. Aided by his sister, he embarks on a journey to a lake on whose opposite shore lies the "other land." What ensues is an exorcism of sorts--and one of Handke's most evocative and original endings. Together, The Second Sword and My Day in the Other Land are essential new entries in a body of work like no other.