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Author:	Peter Handke, Tess Lewis	Format:	Hardcover
Publisher:	New Directions	ISBN-10:	0811213889
ISBN-13:	9780811213882	Category:	--
Publication Year:	1998	Sub-Category:	--
Special Attributes:	--	Condition:	Good

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Twelve short journals Handke kept on his travels around the world, each concentrating on observations of seemingly insignificant things--snow melting in a garden, a shoeshine man--that sum up his experience, and always hint at the unknown and the mysterious.
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Length:	90 pages
Height:	8.5 in.
Width:	5.5 in.
Thickness:	0.5 in.
Weight:	8.8 oz.

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"Once Again for Thucydides" is a collection of twelve short journals Peter Handke wrote on trips around the world, from the Balkans to the Pyrenees, from Salzburg to the sea of Hakkaido in Japan. In each journal, Handke concentrates on small things he observes, trying to capture their essence, their "simple, unadorned validity." What results is a word of remarkable precision, in which he uncovers the general appearance of such random things as a tree, a shoeshine man, a boat loading on a pier, and discovers their inner workings and mystery. Always, his writing hints at the unknown. Describing the snow melting in a garden or falling during an inland train ride through Japan, the glowworms illuminating the plains in Friuli, the tidal waters flowing and receding off the Atlantic coast of Spain, these amazing little "epics" reveal a narrator obsessed with the wonders of detail and marveling, as are we, at the scope and variety of the natural world. In the words of German writer Gerhard Meier, "Once Again for Thucydides" ends up being "a courageous and defiantly independent book."
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Like his recent novel, My Year in the No-Man's-Bay, this series of intimately described observations certainly doesn't qualify as fiction by most standards of measure. In neither work is Handke very concerned with character or plot in the usual sense. Each of these simple, elegant pieces very specifically identifies date and place, as in a travelogue, with the first-person narrator (often referring to himself in detached third-person terms such as "the observer") journeying to locations as distant as the Balkans or Japan. In keeping with Handke's ethic of clean, scrupulous description, "The Shoeshine Man of Split" celebrates the "saint of small measures" who performs perfectly the small act of shining a pair of shoes. The stories grow increasingly personal as the collection progresses, as in the strongest piece, "The Short Fable of the Ash Tree in Munich," which is the narrator's minute diary of a tree's transformation; even here, however, a recognizably fictional narrator never emerges. Handke's observations are well served by the supple English prose of translator Lewis. Although this small book's avoidance of conventional drama makes it clear that its intended audience is a small one, Handke offers quiet pleasures, delivered in precise, carefully honed language that eschews metaphor in favor of detailed acts of perception. (Sept.) Bukey

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Once Again for Thucydides

Peter Handke, Tess Lewis

Book Notes:
Binding:	Hardcover
Book Condition:	Good
Jacket Condition:	Good

ISBN:	0811213889
Publication Date:	1998-09
Publisher:	New Directions Publishing Corpor

Pages:	90
Height:	0.5400 inches
Width:	5.7200 inches
Weight:	0.4900 pounds

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