by Peter Handke · Suhrkamp Verlag · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783518369524
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«Die Stunde der wahren Empfindung» is the novel by Austrian writer Peter Handke, published by Suhrkamp Verlag in paperback (167 pages, in German).
Gregor Keuschnig, press attaché at the Austrian embassy in Paris, lives an existential crisis marked by ennui and a lack of future. His wife's departure and solitude confront him with alienation, identity, and the search for authentic experiences. Handke reflects on perception, routine, and the meaning of life in a dehumanized world.
Work originally published in 1975. This edition dates from 1978 and corresponds to number 452 of the suhrkamp taschenbuch collection.
For readers of contemporary European fiction and of literature in German interested in the work of Peter Handke, Nobel Prize in Literature 2019.
Peter Handke is an Austrian novelist, playwright, translator, poet, film director, and screenwriter. He was awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature "for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience." Handke is considered to be one of the most influential and original German-language writers in the second half of the 20th century.
