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Novelist Peter Handke: 'To die in the middle of writing a book, that would be magnificent!'
Peter Handke does not like to talk about his work as a writer. He is not particularly fond of the word "work," at least in the sense of drudgery. He prefers the word "profession," which he finds very beautiful, no doubt because of its direct link to expressiveness – "I profess!" he said, laughing.
To enter into the oeuvre of this major Austrian writer, born in 1942 and winner of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature, is to embark on a literary journey full of jolts and dazzlement, encompassing epic narratives (On A Dark Night I Left My Silent House, 2000), plays (Über die Dörfer, "Through the Villages," 1981) and numerous notebooks (Gestern unterwegs, "On the road yesterday," 2011), in which Handke meticulously explores the every day, a source of countless inner discoveries.
