The Left-Handed Woman

from icolford

Peter Handke's The Left-Handed Woman comes across as experimental fiction, and whether it succeeds or fails is probably best left up to the reader. In this ultraslim novel the characters' motivations are left mostly unstated and their emotional responses are muted to a deliberately excessive degr...

from baswood

Peter Handke an Austrian by birth won the 2019 Nobel prize for literature. It was a controversial choice because of the Authors pro-Serbian attitudes particularly his support for Slobodan Milošević. Die linkshädige Frau (The Left Handed Woman) was published in 1977. It is a novella with a style v...