A seamless blend of lyricism and horror seen in the runes of a disintegrating world
Boston Sunday Globe
Handke became the <i>enfant terrible </i>of the European avant-garde, denouncing all social, psychological and historical categories of experience as species of linguistic fraud. But [he] has aged well and now...is regarded as one of the most important writers in German
- Richard Locke, The New York Times
One of Europe's great writers
- Karl Ove Knausgaard,
The author reports and meditates upon the silent catastrophes that continuously befall the human interior
- WG Sebald,