Since the time of the Yugoslav wars, there seems to have been only two positions on Peter Handke: defending his literary mastery while at the same time trivializing his political statements, or political demonization while at the same time trivializing his literature. The writer’s 80th birthday could be the occasion to combine these two irreconcilable perspectives and to ask oneself to what extent poetics and politics are related in Handke’s work and what interactions exist between the carefully taken position of the politically isolated and the developments of his writing.
Writer Peter Handke is 80 years old – culture
