Bordering on Names: Strategies of Mapping in the Prose of Terézia Mora and Peter Handke

Paul Buchholz Download PDF Abstract: The contemporary prose works of Peter Handke and Terézia Mora are marked by a common formal feature: the strategy of circumlocution, whereby narrative intrigue is fueled by the continual and nimble avoidance of any proper place-names. Their commitment to this aesthetic strategy of non-naming can be linked to a literary […]