{"id":14207,"date":"2017-03-01T09:58:40","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T13:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=14207"},"modified":"2017-03-01T09:58:40","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T13:58:40","slug":"peter-handkes-landing-approaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/peter-handkes-landing-approaches\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Handke’s “Landing Approaches”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Sometime\u00a0last year, in May, if I remember correctly, I took the following notes toward a post, which I never got to finalize. I’ll post them today \u2014 Handke’s writing & thinking about writing somehow keeps coming to my mind:<\/p>\n

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This saturday morning’s newspaper reading led me, via the ever so useful GermanPerlentaucher<\/a>\u00a0cultural news gatherer, to Die Welt<\/em>,\u00a0\u00a0a paper I normally don’t read. Today in its cultural pages the paper reproduced extracts of a new book by Austrian writer Peter Handke. It is a sort of compemdium of aphoristic diary notes, called in German\u00a0Vor der Baumschattenwand nachts \u2014 Zeichen und Anfl\u00fcge von der Peripherie 2007-2015<\/em> (Jung u. Jung, forthcoming 3\/6\/16[ actually published then, cf. here<\/a>]).
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And so the first pleasure\/labor of the day was an attempt to translate the title: Before the Treeshadowwall at Night \u2014 Signs and Notes from the Periphery 2007-2015<\/em>. Ah, but that lovely “Anfl\u00fcge” \u2014 yes, a note, notes, but only because it has that\u00a0double entendre<\/em> as both a musical sound & notation, & a scribbled something. And yet \u2014 the word is so much richer that a translation would want to enlist all the English equivalents, staring with the one that does justice to the word “flug\/flight” embedded in it:\u00a0approach;\u00a0landing\u00a0approach; & then all the variations on “note:” shade, touch, hint, tinge, whiff, etc. But let me offer three or four of the notes, here, as quick morning pleasure (even if you will get them only nachts\/at night, given that it is already late afternoon here in Boise (mountain time) and thus much later in the eastward direction I seem to be looking\/listening in.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sch\u00f6nes Haus!? Ja, aber es fehlt das in ihm geschriebene Buch.
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\nBeautiful house!? Yes, But what’s missing is a book written in it.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nAlles ist doch gesagt? Nichts ist gesagt. Nichts ist zu sagen. Und wenn auch alles gesagt w\u00e4re \u2013 umso besser: Sag’s auf deine Weise. Deine Weise \u2013 so du eine hast \u2013 wird gebraucht<\/p>\n

Everything has been said? Nothing has been said. There’s nothing to be said. And even if everything had been said \u2014 all the better: Say it your way. Your way \u2014 if you have one \u2014 is needed<\/span><\/p>\n

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Es gibt auch episch fruchtbare Vorurteile? Ja, wenn sie sich aufl\u00f6sen<\/p>\n

There also exist epically fruitful prejudices? Yes, when they dissolve<\/span><\/p>\n

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Es gibt die Unschuld. Sie wird die Welt retten. Tr\u00e4ume mich, Epos! Heute mu\u00df ich weit gehen: F\u00fchle ich mich nicht im Aufbruch, im Aufbruchstraum von einer m\u00f6glichen Menschheit, so hat das poetische, das entwerfende Schreiben keinen Sinn<\/p>\n

Innocence exists. It will save the world. Dream me, Epos! Today I have to go far: If I do not feel myself to be at the start, at the dreamstart of a possible humanity, then the poetic, the projective writing makes no sense<\/p>\n

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Schreiben hei\u00dft auch: den Traum, den Gro\u00dfen, z\u00fcgeln<\/p>\n

To write also means: to rein in the dream, the big one<\/p>\n

*<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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