The sound made by the person walking back and forth whenever he or she pauses
It is impossible to sum up the subject of Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke’s latest text in a pithy, concise phrase. In a kind of poetic exploration, a poet traverses the world, and the world traverses him.
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In this encounter, language is the event—a song, or rather a melody—in search of an echo, a counterpart. “Or maybe not.” The one who is constantly speaking, fooling around, dreaming, and marveling—he’s playing with us. Until he disappears and someone else takes over.
A co-production with the Salzburg Festival.
