Contemporary World Writers – Peter Handke / Savremeni svetski pisci : Peter Handke
by Neda Valčic Lazović
(Interview-documentary, Serbia, 2020, C, 50’, OV)

The interview with Peter Handke took place a little before Christmas 2019 in his house in Chaville. It is probably the first interview of this importance after the Nobel Prize ceremony. In it, he looks back on the different phases of his creation and his life, from his beginnings in the literary revolution of the sixties, through Repetition (1986), where Yugoslavia is mentioned for the first time as his literary toponym, to the works whose theme is the space of the former Yugoslavia. Some questions: how, in his writing, does the external world become the internal world and vice versa? How does a tragic ending bring about catharsis? What is his relationship to Yugoslavia, this eros that drives him?