Echoes of Peter Handke’s Winter Journey, or the writer in the fire of criticism. The consequences
of the literary fascination with fairytale Yugoslavia in the works of the Austrian Nobel Prize
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Echa Podróży zimowej Petera Handkego, czyli pisarz w ogniu krytyki. O konsekwencjach literackiej fascynacji baśniową Jugosławią w twórczości austriackiego noblisty
Echoes of Peter Handke’s Winter Journey, or the writer in the fire of criticism. The consequences of the literary fascination with fairytale Yugoslavia in the works of the Austrian Nobel Prize winner

Author(s): Joanna Małgorzata Banachowicz
Subject(s): Austrian Literature, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego
Keywords: Peter Handke; A Journey to the Rivers; Serbia; the Nobel Prize in Literature;

Summary/Abstract: In the late autumn of 1995, Peter Handke traveled to Yugoslavia, a country scarred by civilwar, which has always been an important point of reference in his work as a place to remember hismulticultural roots. In many of his works, the writer returns to his native Carinthia, which in his eyesis an extension of the fairy-tale Yugoslavia, a country that has painfully disintegrated before his eyes.The result of this trip was an essay published a year later, A Journey to the Rivers. Justice for Serbia(Eine winterliche Reise zu den Flüssen Donau, Save, Morawa und Drina oder Gerechtigkeit für Serbien)and Handke’s intention was to target the media reporting on the Balkan war. The book very quicklybecame the subject of passionate discussion (the writer was accused of glorifying the perpetrators),its echoes were revived again in 2019 when Peter Handke was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

  • Issue Year: 11/2023
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 77-88
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Polish
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