New book by Peter Handke: “Snow of yesterday, snow of tomorrow”

Last fall, Peter Handke, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2019, published his notebooks. More precisely, those from the late 1970s. And unlike the well-formed, carefully balanced prose and theater texts, you had the impression that you were listening to the poet thinking, directly. One read sentences like this: “This is how I live, doing what is necessary, avoiding what is not necessary, and at the same time doing this and that.” There is something strangely comforting about this mild egocentrism in introspection – and it is now repeating itself. Peter Handke has published a new book called “Snow of Yesterday, Snow of Tomorrow”. Already on the first page you can read: “Word of the poet: ‘The Great Cold is approaching – or not.’” So you relax straight away. Despite all the worries.