A Moment of True Feeling

At the beginning of Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke's novel A Moment of True Feeling, Gregor Keuschnig awakens from a nightmare in which he has committed murder, and announces, From today on, I shall be leading a double life.

The duplicity, however, lies only in Keuschnig's mind; his everyday life as the press atache for the Austrian Embassy in Paris continues much as before: routine paperwork, walks in the city, futile intimacies with his family and his mistress. But Keuschnig is oblivious to it all, merely simulating his previous identity while he searches for a higher significance, a mystical moment of true sensation which can free him from what the novel calls life's dreadful normalcy. Convinced that, if he fails, life's meaning will be revealed to him only when it is too late, he looks for portents everywhere.

Keuschnig's search takes him through all of Paris. At every step, his feelings are interwoven with acute observation of its streets, buildings, cafes, parks, sky. It is an intimate and evocative journey, in a city that is at once supportive and familiar, strange and provocative.

Author: Peter Handke
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 02/25/2020
Pages: 144
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.41lbs
Size: 8.25h x 5.50w x 0.34d
ISBN13: 9781250767318
ISBN10: 1250767318
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | World Literature | Austria

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