Peter Handke: Bin im Wald. Kann Sein, Dass Ich Mich Verspäte... plot
Many of his book titles sound like the title from a jukebox and became the slogans of several generations of readers: 'Publikumsbeschimpfung', 'Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter', 'Wunschloses Unglück', 'Der kurze Brief zum langen Abschied', 'Das Weight der Welt'. In the 1960s, Austrian Peter Handke was one of the first to do this: impersonating the writer as an angry man and pop star of the literary scene; young, uncompromising in his language and in the diversity of his writing, prose, drama, screenplays, poems, essays and translations. Whenever he was on the bestseller lists, he turned his back on the hype. Peter Handke, a quiet and friendly man, has been living and working for many years in a Parisian suburb.