The Elegy of Desire (2019 Nobel Prize Winner in Literature)
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About This Novel
Works by Peter Handke, winner of the 2019 Nobel Prize for Literature. "The Elegy of Desire" begins with a newspaper report about the suicide of a 51-year-old housewife. The narrator "I" was immediately obliged to write his mother's "simple and clear" story. In the recollection of this woman's fate, her survival trajectory, which was restricted by social roles and values, is naturally revealed to the reader. My mother was born in a Catholic small-scale farming environment and received a moral education without desire, order and endurance. In the end, she was still unable to escape the destruction of her own existence by social roles and language patterns, so suicide became her inevitable destination without choice. The author uses his ingenious narrative structure and unique narrative style to express the story of his mother's life and death, which contains a thought-provoking desire, an existence worth yearning for, and a narrative voice that silently questions social violence.
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An author with only 10 works, all 10 books were awarded the "Nobel Prize for Literature"
Peter Handke (1942-) is regarded as the best contemporary writer in Austria, and he is also one of the focuses of attention in today's German and even the world's literary circles. Since becoming famous in 1966, Handke has created miracles one after another for German literature, and has won many literary awards, such as the "Hauptmann Award" (1967), the "Büchner Award" (1973), "Heine Prize" (2007), "Thomas Mann Prize" (2008), "Kafka Prize" (2009), "King Lazar Gold Cross" (Serbian Order of Literature, 2009), etc. His works have been translated and introduced to many countries around the world, winning world-renowned reputation for contemporary German literature.
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Reading The Elegy of Desire This is after a mother committed suicide A story written by a son about his mother At first I was very curious about the reason why her mother committed suicide.
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An author with only 10 works, all 10 books were awarded the "Nobel Prize for Literature"
Peter Handke (1942-) is regarded as the best contemporary writer in Austria, and he is also one of the focuses of attention in today's German and even the world's literary circles. Since becoming famous in 1966, Handke has created miracles one after another for German literature, and has won many literary awards, such as the "Hauptmann Award" (1967), the "Büchner Award" (1973), "Heine Prize" (2007), "Thomas Mann Prize" (2008), "Kafka Prize" (2009), "King Lazar Gold Cross" (Serbian Order of Literature, 2009), etc. His works have been translated and introduced to many countries around the world, winning world-renowned reputation for contemporary German literature.
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Reading The Elegy of Desire This is after a mother committed suicide A story written by a son about his mother At first I was very curious about the reason why her mother committed suicide.
