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Across
by Peter Handke, Ralph Manheim
by Peter Handke, Ralph Manheim
was dipping into my 1988 notebooks over Easter and came across this:
Across: very grim, the housing estate where he lives (a village outside Salzburg), the screams of a child at night, the last bus disgorging a lone passenger. The fog coming off the peat bogs, the canal towpath where he rips down political signs and advertisements .
and later, my notebook says: beginning to affect me deeply, its relentlessnes, its black nights full of cries, snow, dogs; fog and black mountain fills your head, there seems no other landscape. Handke makes it clear it is man made, an option we took somewhere along the line, creating our own pressure, locking up violence within.. a cliff is a 'flashing guillotine', a swan's groaning wings in the moonlight
later still: the news is too horrible, four boys are killed in Austria at the exact spot where Handke has set his novel (Untersburg)
Don't know what I meant by 'it is man made' but i was v. young: 33.
Across: very grim, the housing estate where he lives (a village outside Salzburg), the screams of a child at night, the last bus disgorging a lone passenger. The fog coming off the peat bogs, the canal towpath where he rips down political signs and advertisements .
and later, my notebook says: beginning to affect me deeply, its relentlessnes, its black nights full of cries, snow, dogs; fog and black mountain fills your head, there seems no other landscape. Handke makes it clear it is man made, an option we took somewhere along the line, creating our own pressure, locking up violence within.. a cliff is a 'flashing guillotine', a swan's groaning wings in the moonlight
later still: the news is too horrible, four boys are killed in Austria at the exact spot where Handke has set his novel (Untersburg)
Don't know what I meant by 'it is man made' but i was v. young: 33.
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