Summary
Peter Handke: Moravian Night
Porodin, central Serbia, just before midnight. Seven people approach the riverbank where the Moravian Night ship is anchored. A writer who decided to retire from the literary scene invited them to his floating home. The seven friends don't know why they were called so suddenly: some were woken up by the phone, some by a messenger knocking on the door or a pebble thrown at the window. An even bigger surprise awaits them on the ship, where this notorious misogynist welcomes them in the company of a woman. Who is that woman? His lover? Prostitute? Or maybe an assistant? The questions don't stop pouring in, but the writer doesn't want to say anything yet, the whole night is ahead of him. A long night in which he will talk about his "round trip" from the Balkans to Spain, Germany and Austria, about the path he took in search of his own roots, but also running away from the woman who pursues him in order to get his head. And maybe it is this woman who welcomes the dawn together with them?
Strong, colorful, confessional, but at the same time satirical, Moravian Night explores the consciousness and memories of a writer at the end of his career, following the trail of his fears, anger and pleasures, which are inseparable from the recent history of Central Europe.
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