Walk about the villages
Subtitle: a dramatic poem
By: Peter Handke ; in a translation for voice with an afterword by Michael Roloff.
Contributors: Roloff, Michael.
Series: Studies in Austrian literature, culture, and thought.
Publisher: Ariadne Press; Ariadne Pr
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Riverside, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 153
Description: Peter Handke's dramatic poem Walk about the Villages is the fourth part of Handke's "homecoming cycle," whose other three parts [A Slow Homecoming, The Lesson of St. Victoire, and A Child Story] can be found under the American title A Slow Homecoming.

The underlying story line of Walk about the Villages could not be simpler. The "prodigal" writer Gregor returns to his home village. He and his brother Hans, a construction worker, and his shopkeeper sister have a dispute over the disposition of the house which the parents had built and the land which they had cleared with their own hands many years before.

Within this straightforward conflict, Handke touches upon almost every aspect of our existence. It is a lyrical play, a poetic drama on the order of Thornton Wilder's Our Town, and Dylan Thomas' Under Milk Wood. It is an "Everyman and Everywoman" dramatic poem for our time.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-153).