{"id":277406,"date":"2010-03-24T14:46:48","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T14:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2010\/03\/24\/latest-review-don-juan-his-own-version-by-peter-handke\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T14:10:03","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T14:10:03","slug":"latest-review-don-juan-his-own-version-by-peter-handke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2010\/03\/24\/latest-review-don-juan-his-own-version-by-peter-handke\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest Review: "Don Juan: His Own Version" by Peter Handke"},"content":{"rendered":"

The latest addition<\/a> to our Review Section<\/a> is a piece on Peter Handke’s latest novella, Don Juan: His Own Version<\/em>, which is translated from the German by Krishna Winston and published by FSG<\/span>. <\/p>\n

Dan Vitale—one of our new “contributing reviewers,” which is sponsored by a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts—wrote this review. He’s a big Handke fan, and although this may not be Handke’s absolute best, it sounds pretty interesting:<\/p>\n

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Peter Handke\u2019s latest novella to be published in English translation is narrated by a chef who operates and lives in an inn in the \u00cele-de-France region outside Paris, near the ruins of the Port-Royal-des-Champs convent. Experiencing a period of solitude due to lack of business (all his neighbors — his potential customers — have moved away), he occupies his time reading. Thus, he is an ideal audience for a visiting storyteller who suddenly and fancifully appears in his garden: a visitor from another century and out of the pages of literature — the legendary lover Don Juan.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Handke, in addition to being a brilliant, occasionally controversial playwright and essayist, has for four decades written numerous brief, brilliant, piercing novellas (and two longer works of fiction, including his masterpiece My Year in the No-Man\u2019s-Bay<\/em>). These works have carried forward the tradition of intensely psychological German-language modernism (Handke is Austrian) and at the same time taken it in new, breathtaking, highly self-conscious directions. A simple recital of some of his titles — The Goalie\u2019s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick<\/em>; A Sorrow Beyond Dreams<\/em>; A Moment of True Feeling<\/em>; and the collection of journal entries The Weight of the World<\/em> — is enough to capture the dual atmosphere of mournful angst and tender beauty in which his entire oeuvre is steeped.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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So, the entrance of the title character in Don Juan: His Own Version<\/em> is, for Handke, uncharacteristically lighthearted, even farcical.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Click here<\/a> to read the full review. <\/p>\n

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