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Once Again for Thucydides

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Once Again for Thucydides
AuthorPeter Handke
Original titleNoch einmal für Thukydides
TranslatorTess Lewis
LanguageGerman
Genretravel literature
PublisherResidenz Verlag
Publication date
1990
Publication placeAustria
Published in English
1998
Pages38
ISBN978-3-7017-0666-2

Once Again for Thucydides (German: Noch einmal für Thukydides) is a 1990 book of travel literature by the Austrian writer Peter Handke. It describes impressions from different places in the world in 17 short vignettes.

Reception

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Liam Callanan of The New York Times says the book changes the more closely it is read, because what first seems simple begins to appear more complex. He says it primarily is a poetic work and that Handke's occasional questioning of his role as an observer "rescues the book from fussy preciosity".[1] Publishers Weekly says it is a book for niche readers and calls the texts simple and elegant in how they describe perceptions in "precise, carefully honed language that eschews metaphor". The critic compares the book to Handke's novel My Year in the No-Man's-Bay (1994), writing that both works avoid conventional definitions of fiction and are written from an elusive character's perspective.[2] Kirkus Reviews says Once Again for Thucydides is pleasing and the way it shows Handke from a different, less austere side is refreshing.[3]

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References

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  1. ^ Callanan, Liam (22 November 1998). "Once Again for Thucydides". The New York Times. Retrieved 22 April 2023.
  2. ^ "Once Again for Thucydides". Publishers Weekly. 31 August 1998. Retrieved 22 April 2023.
  3. ^ "Once Again for Thucydides". Kirkus Reviews. 15 September 1998. Retrieved 22 April 2022.
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