Frases de Peter Handke

„Y al fin:
feliz aquel que tiene sus lugares de duración;
ya no será, aunque se haya trasladado para siempre a un país
extraño,
sin perspectivas de volver a su mundo,
nadie a quien han expulsado de su patria.“

—  Peter Handke

Gedicht an die Dauer

„Lo principal: … no dejarme definir por la historia, no considerarla una excusa —aborrecerla en aquellos que ocultan su insignificancia personal tras ella— y, sin embargo, conocerla para comprender a las personas y, sobre todo, para calarlas (mi odio a la historia como refugio para el ninguneo) "“

—  Peter Handke

„Si una nación pierde a sus narradores, pierde su infancia.“

—  Peter Handke

„Tenso, nervioso y cercano a la locura antes de escribir, y cuando leo lo que he escrito, se ve muy tranquilo.“

—  Peter Handke

„Ya no era superficial, había dejado de pensar.“

—  Peter Handke

„A fine thing: suddenly to forget about one’s history, one’s past, to stop feeling that one’s present happiness is endangered by what one used to be.“

—  Peter Handke

Fuente: Das Gewicht der Welt [The Weight of the World], p. 7

„The main thing:… not to let myself be defined by history, not to take it as an excuse—despise it in those who hide their personal insignificance behind it—and yet know it, in order to understand people and above all to see through them“

—  Peter Handke

my hatred of history as a refuge for be-nothings
Fuente: Das Gewicht der Welt [The Weight of the World], p. 11

„Proud of my near-madness, as if I had attained a goal.“

—  Peter Handke

Fuente: Das Gewicht der Welt [The Weight of the World], p. 16

„My way of thinking is often so wrong, so untenable, because I think as if I were talking to someone else.“

—  Peter Handke

Fuente: Das Gewicht der Welt [The Weight of the World], p. 9

„Tense, unnerved, and close to madness before writing—and when I read what I’ve written it looks so calm.“

—  Peter Handke

Fuente: Das Gewicht der Welt [The Weight of the World], p. 16

„When the child was a child, it didn’t know that it was a child, everything was soulful, and all souls were one.“

—  Peter Handke

„If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.“

—  Peter Handke

„I was no longer superficial — I had stopped thinking.“

—  Peter Handke

Ich hörte auf, oberflächlich zu sein — ich dachte nichts mehr
Fuente: Das Gewicht der Welt [The Weight of the World], p. 5

„I was angry at her for not being what I wanted.“

—  Peter Handke

Fuente: Das Gewicht der Welt [The Weight of the World], p. 14