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Short letter, long farewell

TV adaptation of Handke's novel, Short Letter, Long Farewell. A young Austrian man, who flees to America to escape a painful divorce, discovers that he is being pursued by his ex-wife. He flees, she follows, and soon the couple is running circles around each other across America, ending in an encounter with 76-year old American director, John Ford, at his Bel Air estate.

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  • "Der kurze Brief zum langen Abschied"@it
  • "Die linkshändige Frau"
  • "Kratko pismo dolgo slovo"@sl
  • "Kurze Brief zum langen Abschied. Français"

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  • "TV adaptation of Handke's novel, Short Letter, Long Farewell. A young Austrian man, who flees to America to escape a painful divorce, discovers that he is being pursued by his ex-wife. He flees, she follows, and soon the couple is running circles around each other across America, ending in an encounter with 76-year old American director, John Ford, at his Bel Air estate."@en
  • "Short Letter, Long Farewell is one the most inventive and exhilarating of the great Peter Handke's novels. Full of seedy noir atmospherics and boasting an air of generalized delirium, the book starts by introducing us to a nameless young German who has just arrived in America, where he hopes to get over the collapse of his marriage. No sooner has he arrived, however, than he discovers that his ex-wife is pursuing him. He flees, she follows, and soon the couple is running circles around each other across the length of America---from Philadelphia to St. Louis to the Arizona desert, and from Portland, Oregon, to L.A. Is it love or vengeance that they want from each other? Everything's spectacularly unclear in a book that is travelogue, suspense story, domestic comedy, and Western showdown, with a totally unexpected Hollywood twist at the end. Above all, Short Letter, Long Farewell is a love letter to America, its landscapes and popular culture, the invitation and the threat of its newness and wildness and emptiness, with the promise of a new life---or the corpse of an old one---lying just around the corner."
  • "Short Letter, Long Farewell tells the story of a young Austrian--evidently modeled on the author--on a month's journey across the United States. The book opens in Providence, where a letter awaits the un-named narrator from his estranged wife, Judith. "I am in New York," it says. "Please don't look for me. It would not be nice for you to find me." As the novel proceeds, however, it gradually becomes clear that Judith is pursuing him, not vice versa--pursuing with the intent to kill. He spends a day in New York, then goes on to Philadelphia, where he joins an old flame and her daughter. The trio drives to St. Louis, still shadowed by Judith; partly to escape her (and partly to face her), the narrator strikes out west on his own, to Tucson, where he is robbed by Judith's agents, then up to the Oregon coast, where a roadside showdown takes place and a gunshot echoes over the Pacific. "I seem to have been born for horror and fear," Handke's narrator confesses. As the narrator and Judith maneuver toward their coastal rendezvous, his life itself may depend on whether he has achieved enough--in the flesh and in the mind--to confront the pistol trembling in her hand."@en
  • "Op reis door de Verenigde Staten ontmoet een jonge man zijn ontrouwe echtgenote."

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  • "Erzählende Literatur: Gegenwartsliteratur ab 1945"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Translations"@en
  • "Translations"
  • "Ausgabe"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Vertalingen (vorm)"
  • "Biographical fiction"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "German fiction"
  • "Tekstuitgave"
  • "Nowele austriackie"

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  • "Der kurze Brief zum langen Abschied : [Roman]"
  • "Scurta scrisoare pentru o lunga despartire : [roman]"
  • "Short letter, lang farewell"
  • "Scurtă scrisoare pentru o lungă despărţire"
  • "Der kurze brief Zum Langen Abschied"
  • "Der kurze Brief zum langen Abschied. [Roman]"
  • "Der kurze Brief zum langen Abschied ; Die linkshändige Frau : [zwei Erzählungen]"
  • "Syntomo gramma gia henan megalo apochairetismo"
  • "Syntomo gramma gia enan megalo apochairetismo"
  • "Carta breve para un lar adios"
  • "Breve lettera del lungo addio : romanzo"@it
  • "Breve lettera del lungo addio : romanzo"
  • "Kort brev till långt farväl roman"
  • "La courte lettre pour un long adieu : Roman"
  • "Kort brev till långt farväl : (roman)"@sv
  • "Carta Breve Para Un Largo Adios/ Brief Letter for a Long Farewell"
  • "COURTE LETTRE POUR UN LONG ADIEU"
  • "Der kurze Brief zum langen Abschied : (26. bis 40. Taus.)"
  • "Kurze Brief zum langen Abschied"
  • "Short letter, Long Farewell"
  • "Trumpas laiškas, ilgas atsisveikinimas"
  • "Der Kurze Brief zum langen Abschied"
  • "Carta breve para un largo adiós"@es
  • "Carta breve para un largo adiós"
  • "La Courte lettre pour un long adieu"
  • "Krátky list na dlhú rozlúčku"
  • "La courte lettre pour un long adieu"
  • "Short letter, long farewell"
  • "Short letter, long farewell"@en
  • "Der kurze Brief zum langen Abschied. Die linkshändige Frau"
  • "Der Kurze Brief zum langer Abschied"
  • "Kratko pismo, dolgo slovo"
  • "Kratko pismo, dolgo slovo"@sl
  • "De korte brief bij het lange afscheid"
  • "ˆDer‰ kurze Brief zum langen Abschied"
  • "Sýntomo grámma gia énan megálo apochairetismó"
  • "Der kurze Brief zum langen Abschied"
  • "Der kurze Brief zum langen Abschied : [zwei Erzählungen]"
  • "Der kurze Brief zzum langen Abschied"
  • "Breve lettera del lungo addio"

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