Editing Peter Handke (section)

==Literary reception==
In 1977, reviewing ''[[A Moment of True Feeling]]'', [[Stanley Kauffmann]] wrote that Handke "is the most important new writer on the international scene since [[Samuel Beckett]]."<ref>{{Cite news|last=Kauffmann|first=Stanley|author-link=Stanley Kauffmann|date=25 June 1977|title=The Novel as Poem|work=[[Saturday Review (U.S. magazine)|Saturday Review]]|page=23}}</ref> [[John Updike]] reviewed the same novel in [[The New Yorker]] and was equally impressed, noting that "there is no denying his [Handke's] willful intensity and knifelike clarity of evocation. He writes from an area beyond psychology, where feelings acquire the adamancy of randomly encountered, geologically analyzed pebbles."<ref>{{Cite magazine|last=Updike|first=John|date=26 September 1977|title=Discontent in Deutsch|magazine=The New Yorker|url=https://archives.newyorker.com/newyorker/1977-09-26/flipbook/136/|access-date=5 May 2021}}</ref> The ''[[Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung]]'' described him as "the darling of the [[West Germany|West German]] critics."<ref name=NYT>{{Cite web|last1=Marshall|first1=Alex|last2=Schuetze|first2=Christopher|date=10 December 2019|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/10/books/peter-handke-nobel-prize.html|title=Genius, Genocide Denier or Both?|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=11 September 2020}}</ref> [[Hugo Hamilton (writer)|Hugo Hamilton]] stated that, since his debut, Handke "has tested, inspired and shocked audiences."<ref>{{Cite web|last=Hamilton|first=Hugo|author-link=Hugo Hamilton (writer)|url=https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/peter-handke-moravian-night/|title=Peter Handke's gentle epic|website=[[The Guardian]]|access-date=11 September 2020}}</ref> [[Joshua Cohen (writer)|Joshua Cohen]] noted that Handke "commands one of the great German-language [[Prose poetry|prose]] styles of the [[post-war]] period, a riverine rhetoric deep and swift and contrary of current," while [[Gabriel Josipovici]] described him, "despite reservations about some of his recent work," as one of the most significant [[German literature|German-language writers]] of the post-war era.<ref name=Cohen>{{Cite web|last=Cohen|first=Joshua|author-link=Joshua Cohen (writer)|date=30 December 2016|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/30/books/review/peter-handke-moravian-night.html|title=Peter Handke's Time-Traveling Tale of a Europe in Flux|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=11 September 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Josipovici|first=Gabriel|author-link=Gabriel Josipovici|url=https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/peter-handke-moravian-night/|title=Peter Handke's gentle epic|website=[[The Times Literary Supplement]]|access-date=11 September 2020}}</ref> [[W. G. Sebald]] was inspired by Handke's intricate prose. In an essay on ''Repetition'', he wrote about "a great and, as I have since learned, lasting impression" the book made on him. "I don’t know," he lauded, "if the forced relation between hard drudgery and airy magic, particularly significant for the literary art, has ever been more beautifully documented than in the pages of ''Repetition.''"<ref>{{Cite book|last=Sebald|first=W. G.|title=Across the Border: Peter Handke's Repetition|publisher=The Last Books|year=2013|url=https://thelastbooks.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Sebald_Across_the_Border.pdf|pages=2, 8}}</ref> [[Karl Ove Knausgård]] described ''A Sorrow Beyond Dreams'' as one of the "most important books written in German in our time."<ref name=Rashid>{{Cite web|last=Rashid |first=Tanjil |date=6 December 2016 |url=https://www.ft.com/content/241921d6-1515-11ea-b869-0971bffac109 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221210/https://www.ft.com/content/241921d6-1515-11ea-b869-0971bffac109 |archive-date=10 December 2022 |url-access=subscription|title=A Sorrow Beyond Dreams by Peter Handke — memoir, suffering and politics|work=[[Financial Times]]|access-date=11 September 2020}}</ref> The book and its author were also praised in Knausgård's ''[[My Struggle (Knausgård novels)|My Struggle]]''.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Knausgård|first=Karl Ove|title=Min kamp. Sjette bok|publisher=Forlaget Oktober|year=2011|isbn=9788249515127|location=Oslo|pages=225}}</ref>