Slow Homecoming (2019 Nobel Prize Winner in Literature)

About This Novel

Works by Peter Handke, winner of the 2019 Nobel Prize for Literature. "Slow Homecoming" contains Handke's two novellas "Slow Homecoming" and "Apocalypse on the Holy Mountain". The protagonist of the former, Sorger, comes from Central Europe and is a geologist who conducts geological research in Alaska, close to the Arctic Circle. While at work, loneliness enveloped him and he lost himself. He realized that Europe was his spiritual home. The latter continues the theme of the former, describing the first-person "I"'s two pilgrimages to Mount Saint-Victoire in Provence to follow the creative footsteps of the French Impressionist painter Cézanne.

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