In his In early 1996, in the Süddeutsche Zeitung , published later between book covers report from a trip to Serbia projected Peter Handke
to Serbia, the Milosevic era of 'National Socialism, his deep-rooted desire (once addressed to Slovenia, but only until the declaration of independence and statehood) to a pastoral country where the population lives in harmony with nature. He described his desire for the elementary contact of the clod of earth and for a self-sufficient universe, has not yet been spoiled in the urban modernity of the Western people. Do not get me wrong: in Handke's essay, there are some really wonderful lyrical passages, especially in the description of the Serbian peasants. Handke has chosen him of the representative figure of Serbian culture. The search for a pure, unspoiled and authentic identity is also the breeding ground of a crypto-fascist blood and soil ideology.
These sentences can be read in Fabjan Hafner monograph on Peter Handke , which works out relationships in the Slovenian life and work of the Carinthian narrator and explains every right to one of his main themes. Are you sure quotation; Hafner would, even if here and there in his book critical distance from his subject - 'his' author - through sound, Handke never denounced as fascists (which mounts "Crypto" we hastily put aside).
Still, the concise result is certainly compatible with his own detailed and almost exhaustive study, the construction of Handke Slovenia, his " Ninth country ," a decidedly literary, same time realistic utopia, draws effectively from the romantic, anti-civilization desires, it is, as the historical romance, critical of capitalism in their approaches, as a political program to use but rarely. Here probably lies the key point at which Handke, of a barren rural Slovenia had in mind, just the (real) Karst, and his Slovenian, a decidedly urban culture critics as representing a call of doves are facing. Schlichter said they are talking past each other. "Literature is romantic," Handke had been a year and a day at that time as a pop-poet in the charts, not only proclaimed, but also running.
"Literature is the Enlightenment" could Aleš Debeljak , the Ljubljana poet, cultural critic and professor of literature, from which the opening quotation reply. Who is right? No one is right. The only certainty is that Handke with a blood-and-soil ideology, provided here, and this is almost inevitable, historical-political Associations are suggested, never had something on their hats. From a very specific reason: Handke feels since his literary beginnings as an anti-war poet, and later as epic poet of peace, while fascism without aggressive gesture and not the glorification of war may be what he is. Even this basic fact, plays, with their capillary effects play an important role in Hafner's monograph.
The Slovenian and the war theme in their biographical origins as well as in literary reactions and even in Handke's future projects - Hafner reports of a planned major work, a partisan drama - very closely intertwined. In this respect shall Hafner, along with the inevitable Overlap, an important complement to Rowohlt monograph by Hans Höller before. Höller makes in his brief description of Handke's life and work of the war experience of the infant to the pivot of his biographical representation. Both monographs have, regardless of the number of pages, about the same weight. Greatly shortening could be said that the work has Handkesche in the way of an ellipse with two foci not more than two main themes: the experience of war and longing for peace on the one hand, the search for identity of the half Slovenes on the other.
It could be that all others are just matters of taste, issues of preferences, Influences, more or less random influences - on the reader as well as on the author page. Every romance has a tendency towards escapism, to whitewashing, Handke is aware of himself for a long time. If there had been proof were needed, he would now faced with the most self-deprecating and self-critical, sometimes pathetic but again, epiphanic and even romantic epic tour The Moravian Night . Clement has Renoldner following his review of the self-referential Höller monograph of Handke's letter complained, while even the genre of autobiography in a dubious Light shifted (Literature and Criticism 429/430).
How Welthaltigkeit Handke works, it could argue long. I remember A Sorrow , this biography and autobiography - family biography, both fictional and real, a typical Handke genre alongside the road novels - where the author confronted not much different than in the social and language critical verbal piece Kaspar , biographical pattern with individual experiences, with some passages nigh sociological advised. Above all, Handke has over the years developed a technique of instantaneous description and the narrative content of these moments and sophisticated, the potter, without losing sight of the Slovenia-topic, repeatedly refers. These two aspects are intimately connected namely, the moment of salvation Handkeschen utopias, which certainly are not always tied to loci amoeni on "pastoral places," and the desire for a Carinthian Slovene - into the Moravian night it is even more ironic: "Balkan folk" - Homecoming, which would not be tantamount to surrender. Of course, one must belong to the scattered people of the reader to read and appreciate such epiphanies and also - can enjoy.
If done these raptures to justify a new sense of beauty, even and especially on "unsightly" places, not only in karstic sink hole, but in suburban areas, on the dusty Balkans, no less dusty, sun-Castile or misleading, "umgevolkten" Austrian village? Or they are euphemistically, they lead them astray?
Handke has long since started to doubt, and who the people of the reader heard, it does, even if he is a friend of the Enlightenment, with the writers because they know no alternative, continue searching as: move, yes, changed into a ninth country whose outlines again and again.
Wien, Zsolnay 2009 Karl Wagner: further in the blues, studies and texts Peter Handke - Bonn, 2010 Weidle to controversial reading: Jürgen Brokoff: - Peter Handke as a Serbian nationalist. I see something that does not touch her (FAZ, 15 7th 2010)
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