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Thursday, September 04, 2008

HANDKE WITHDRAWS FROM THE COMPETITION

FOR THE  GERMAN PUBLISHING [SEE LINK BELOW] as far as I am concerned in a similar manner in which he withdrew his play UNTERTAGSBLUES from the Ruhrfestpiele competion [and was never going to accept another price but has accepted the Heine and Thomas Mann prizes since] because he neither wanted to win nor to lose with his weakest play; and this time I think he does not want to loose with one of his best books; and this way of handling the  matter assures him and the wonderful book at least of some publicity; in common these two events have our great author's vulnerable vanity and management of career;




http://www.boersenblatt.net/254870/

dieser verzicht handke's erinnert mich an den moment als er die moeglichkeit den ruhrfestspiel preis vor einigen jahren mit seinem schlechtesten stueck - untertagsblues - zu gewinnen, ablehnte, verhinderte. in diesem fall, moechte er nicht mit einem einer seiner besten buechern verlieren! nominierung und ablehnung, so als ob man gewonnen haette, und ueberhaupt der beste aber zwar aelter, genuegt um die publizitaets machine angekurbelt zu lassen und die eitelheit unverletzt im fall dass man nicht gewinnen wird, wovon handke wohl nach dieser langen zeit nach der nominierung wind bekommen hatte....

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