Farewell to the dreamer from the ninth country
Farewell to the dreamer from the Ninth Land is a work by Peter Handke published in 1991 .
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Peter Handke reflected based more personal experience, the emergence of the state Slovenia . Although Handke feels connected to the Slovenian people through his early childhood in Altenmarkt (Slov. Stara Vas), a district of Griffen , he writes of himself "A" Slovene "but I never became, not even ... a" half " ". He describes how truly Yugoslavia always appeared to him compared to the "non-objective" Germany of his youth, and represents Slovenia is a hospitable country. He evokes the unity of the South Slavic peoples, which he based on the shared experiences of 1918 (the end of the Habsburg monarchy ) and of the Second World War.
He criticizes the fact that the desire to become a state in Slovenia came from outside and mentions several German newspapers ( Spiegel , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ) but also Le Monde in this context . He mentions the Slovenian fairy tale of the "ninth country", which Slovenia abandons in favor of the term Central Europe. He describes an annual meeting of intellectuals in Lipica, at which the participants have become more and more unrecognizable over the years in their unanimous opinion on Slovenian independence. On the basis of several reports, he casts doubt on whether the Slovenes themselves wanted an independent Slovenia.
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- ↑ Handke, Peter .: Farewell of the dreamer from the ninth country. A wintry trip to the rivers Danube, Save, Morawa and Drina or Justice for Serbia [among others]. Peter Handke. 1st edition Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 3-518-39405-3 , pp. 9 .