Handke's people wander perfectly forgotten and empty parts of Spain. Is Moravian Night a nightmare tale, we get a touch of wife beating in Chapter 4 and then by the end we get a brilliant masterpiece of writing about perfect union of the man and the woman (she now tells the tale on the boat, or at least part of it). The two pages of writing about their climax is storytelling, fairy tale anti-fairy tale telling wondrousness with specific and words for them. So is it a Dark Night of the Soul novel? Spain and all. What if I had not become a successful writer, had been a failure and long to be released from the terrors of it, to be a former writer, would that not be pretty good? On the boat we can have a constant shifting of who speaks, who tells the next tale or purported story. Uncertainty, indefiniteness interlaced with what we know happens. Marked a bunch of passages, too lazy to get the book and copy some of them. To do so might violate the mission the book gives us. Posted on X hey Handke has a Tunnel book, too!!
"And in their parting, in their separation, reality appeared, blossomed." 149
"an earring rang" 147
his inveterate avoidance reflex
maybe a bit like Theroux's novel called My Other Life where he imagines his life and career going in totally different ways than it had gone
he gets a guardian angel who helps him walk the slippery rios of Galicia hey, I've been there!! did not try to walk the rocky fissures but I know what that rias bajas looks and feels like Valle landscape
who otherwise in life so often fell into the grip, if not of social phobia at least of a fear of the unknown that caused him to hesitate unduly on the threshold of a new experience 143
let things take their course
how did it happen on this particular day he knew his intuition to be infallible 138
Actually he believed more in mutual enthusiasm than in love, or at least he avoided using that word 136
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