Winking at myself
Michael Hofmann, 7 March 1985
The Weight of the World
by Peter Handke, translated by Ralph Manheim.
Secker, 243 pp., £9.95, September 1984,0 436 19088 5 Show More
by Peter Handke, translated by Ralph Manheim.
Secker, 243 pp., £9.95, September 1984,
“... The Austrian writer Peter Handke is so successful and so prolific that, reviewing one of his recent novels, his arch-enemy Marcel Reich-Ranicki, literary editor of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, ended by crowing at the fact that Langsame Heimkehr bad failed to make it onto the best-seller list. ‘Let no one say there’s no such thing as progress,’ he concluded ... ”