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Short Letter, Long Farewell (German: Der kurze Brief zum langen Abschied) is a 1972 novel by the Austrian writer Peter Handke. It tells the story of a young Austrian writer who travels across the United States in search of his wife from whom he is estranged.
- Peter Handke
- 1972
Jan 1, 2001 · October 12, 2010. A sort of compact bildungsroman for a rather neurotic quarter-life crisis, Short Letter, Long Farewell is, on the surface, a quest: a road trip West across America—with nods toward noir, John Ford, and American history as a whole—in hopes of personal peace and freedom.
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Short Letter, Long Farewell is one the most inventive and exhilarating of the great Peter Handke’s novels. Full of seedy noir atmospherics and boasting an air of generalized delirium, the book starts by introducing us to a nameless young German who has just arrived in America, where he hopes to get over the collapse of his marriage.
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Mar 31, 2009 · Above all, Short Letter, Long Farewell is a love letter to America, its landscapes and popular culture, the invitation and the threat of its newness and wildness and emptiness, with the promise of a new life—or the corpse of an old one—lying just around the corner.
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Mar 31, 2009 · By Nobel Prize Winner Peter HandkeShort Letter, Long Farewell is one the most inventive and exhilarating of the great Peter Handke’s novels. Full of seedy noir atmospherics and boasting an...
- Greil Marcus
- Peter Handke
- Ralph Manheim
Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke's novel Short Letter, Long Farewell tells the story of a young Austrian--evidently modeled on the author--on a harrowing month's journey across the United States.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Jan 1, 1974 - Fiction - 250 pages. Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke's novel Short Letter, Long Farewell tells the story of a young...
