Handke Peter - Crossing The Sierra De Gredos - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: In this visionary novel Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke offers descriptions of objects relationships and events that teach readers a renewed way of seeing; he creates a wealth of images to replace those lost to convention and conformity. On the outskirts of a northwestern European river port city lives a powerful woman banker a public figure admired and hated in equal measure who has decided to turn from the worlds of high finance and modern life to embark on a quest. Having commissioned a famous writer to undertake her "authentic" biography she journeys through the Spanish Sierra de Gredos and the region of La Mancha to meet him. As she travels by all - terrain vehicle bus and finally on foot the nameless protagonist encounters five way stations that become the stuff of her biography and the biography of the modern world a world in which genuine images and unmediated experiences have been exploited and falsified by commercialization and by the voracious mass media. Crossing the Sierra de Gredos is a very human book of yearning and the ancient quest for love peopled with memorable characters (from multiple historical periods) and imbued with Handke's inimitable ability to portray universal inner - worldly adventures that blend past future present and dreamtime.
Title: Crossing The Sierra De Gredos
Author(s): Handke Peter
Publisher: Picador Usa
Barcode: 9781250750648
Pages: 480 Pages
Publication Date: 4/7/2020
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction