tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9008892029208773728.post4934193928302554429..comments2020-06-25T03:33:43.086-07:00Comments on HANDKE--REVISTA-OF-REVIEWS: A review of Peter Handke's DON JUAN [short version]SUMMA POLITICOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11214697505465094305noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9008892029208773728.post-19112802498366462492010-04-14T15:38:00.728-07:002010-04-14T15:38:00.728-07:00Thank you, Scott for such an all-American comment....Thank you, Scott for such an all-American comment. Perhaps I will yet write the extra 10 k words I have on this mother of a book, and in a 100 years my commentary will be published together with it. actually, i am devastated, as Handke has managed a few other times, that never never will i be able to write anything as rich as this...michael r.SUMMA POLITICOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11214697505465094305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9008892029208773728.post-58845534193872604682010-04-12T20:25:37.325-07:002010-04-12T20:25:37.325-07:00Holy shit!
This is the review that can't be ...Holy shit! <br /><br />This is the review that can't be allowed, the review that assays, as you put it, its own essay, that doesn't describe from a limited and prejudicial and judgmental perspective but that risks as much as the novel itself. Verboten.<br /><br />Reviewers don't risk. Didn't you read the guidelines?<br /><br />Reviewers know small things. They can circumscribe. They can pronounce. They are CAREFUL.<br /><br />And bygod you're not careful here.<br /><br />Holy shit! <br /><br />This is the best thing I've read of yours, the tightest and most explosive analysis. Heartfelt and sly as a Seattle raven.<br /><br />As I read it I'm listening to Julius Hemphill's outrageous and tightly thought solo recording Blue Boye. It's inventive, exploratory, reflective, assertive, celebratory, multi-voiced (flute, sax), and recorded in a cold basement.<br /><br />Your review reminds me of his "Homeboy tootin' at the dog/star."<br /><br />And in fact your yourself draw on jazz antecedents.<br /><br />Holy shit!<br /><br />One complaint or rather question. You write that "If we know Handke’s work as far back as the 1971 Short Letter Long Farwell we can see the protagonists - self-acknowledged if imaginatively transformed aspects of the author to have auto-biographical roots - always fleeing women."<br /><br />Isn't that novel, which starts when his wife writes that he shouldn't seek her, that it would be deadly, a novel about his pursuit of her across America?<br /><br />Isn't that novel a rethinking of Nietzsche's "supposing truth to be a woman"?<br /><br />Don't he and she find truth, however American and mythical, in the person of John Ford on the west coast.<br /><br />Holy shit!Scott Abbotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01782322856303315648noreply@blogger.com