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The Utopian Space between Mitteleuropa and the Balkans in Handke’s Travelogue "Once again for Thucydides"

Ana Foteva ; University American College Skopje


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Abstract

This article discusses the utopian space between Mitteleuropa and the Balkans in Handke’s travelogue Once Again for Thucydides. Unlike historians and writers who aspire to cast light on the idiosyncrasy of either the one or the other space, Handke creates an in-between space with its own laws and peculiarities, indeed a dynamic space in de Certeau’s sense, filled with manifold external and internal relations. Handke reveals the idiosyncrasy of this space through metonymy, depicting all the historical layers as coordinated and simultaneous. At the same time, the text teaches its readers to experience the stations on their journeys as dynamic spaces, and to interact directly with the text, to read it always anew, and to pursue new meanings.

Keywords

Utopia, Central Europe, Mediterranean, Peter Handke, Travelouge

Hrčak ID:

308751

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/308751

Publication date:

15.7.2019.

Article data in other languages: german

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