by Peter Handke · Gallimard · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070419616
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«Par une nuit obscure je sortis de ma maison tranquille» is the novel by Peter Handke published by Gallimard in paperback (229 pages, in French).
A pharmacist from Taxham, on the outskirts of Salzburg, tells the writer-narrator about the strange journey that over months took him, without any prior plan, from Austria to Andalusia. The crossing, seemingly arbitrary, transforms him: he sets out solitary and mute and returns awake and serene, after an experience with initiatory overtones.
Translation from German by Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt. Originally published in 1997 as «In einer dunklen Nacht ging ich aus meinem stillen Haus».
Peter Handke is an Austrian novelist, playwright, translator, poet, film director, and screenwriter. He was awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature "for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience." Handke is considered to be one of the most influential and original German-language writers in the second half of the 20th century.
