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Anyone who remembers Handke’s Nobel Prize lecture in 2019 will recognize the dilemma: At that time, Handke reported on his uncle Gregor, who, during one of his vacations at the front in World War II, did not have the heart to tell the family the news that his brother Hans had been killed was. Gregor Werfer, the main character in Handke’s new book, also has such a brother Hans The ballad of the last guest. The news of his brother’s death, who died in the Foreign Legion, reaches him on the “pocket phone screen” following he gets off the bus.
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