Das Gewicht der Welt

The Weight of the World

LanguageGerman
Year1977
CountryAustria
GenreBiography / Memoir / Reportage
Das Gewicht der Welt

The Weight of the World: A Journal is a 1977 book by the Austrian writer Peter Handke. It is Handke's notes or diary entries from a stay in Paris with his daughter from November 1975 to March 1977. It consists of descriptions of events including a mild heart attack and a love affair, and reflections about subjects such as fatherhood, middle age and fear of death. The book was published in German by Residenz Verlag in 1977 and in Ralph Manheim's English translation by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 1984.— Wikipedia

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