Don Juan His Own Version

Binding: Paperback
Description: Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke offers a wry and entertaining take on history's most famous seducer as he takes a respite from his stressful existence Don Juan's story "his own version" is filtered through the consciousness of an anonymous narrator a failed innkeeper and chef into whose solitude Don Juan bursts one day. On each day of the week that follows Don Juan describes the adventures he experienced on that same day a week earlier. The adventures are erotic but Handke's Don Juan is more pursued than pursuer. What makes his accounts riveting are the remarkable evocations of places and people and the nature of his narration. Don Juan: His Own Version is above all a book about storytelling and its ability to burst the ordinary boundaries of time and space. In this brief and wry volume Peter Handke conjures images and depicts the subtleties of human interaction with an unforgettable vividness. Along the way he offers a sharp commentary on many features of contemporary life.
Title: Don Juan His Own Version
Author(s): Peter Handke Handke
Publisher: St. Martins Press - 3pl
Barcode: 9780374532642
Pages: 110 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 2/1/2011
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction