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PHPeter Handke
2020
year of publication
224
pages
English (United Kingdom)
language
Softcover
cover
Publisher
penguin_classics
ISBN-13
978-02-4145-768-9
EAN
9780241457689
Publication date
2020-08-06
Book
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We join the young Austrian teenager Filib Kobal's journey from his home in Carinthia to Slovenia on the trail of his older brother Gregor, whom he never knew. He is armed only with two of Gregor's books: a copy book from agricultural school, and a Slovenian-German dictionary, in which Gregor has marked certain words. To piece together an image of his brother, he pours over Gregor's notebook and marked dictionary. In the latter, he discovers new words which translate into timeless images of the earth and its people. Filip finds he can associate himself with this discovery. The resulting investigation of the laws of language and naming becomes a transformative investigation of himself and the world around him.

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