SOURCE: A review of Mein Jahr in der Niemandsbucht, in World Literature Today, Vol. 69, No. 3, Summer, 1995, pp. 572-3.

In the following review, Skwara offers a favorable assessment of Mein Jahr in der Niemandsbucht.

It can be argued and readily proven on the basis of the available body of world literature that a writer’s or poet’s greatness lies in his ability to renew himself constantly, thus surprising not only readers but language itself with increasingly innovative ways to describe both outer and inner world, while the basic artistic and human vision remains loyally intact. Seen this way, the ever-surprising Peter Handke is one of the greatest living authors, and is recognized as such. He has just presented us with his major work to date [Mein Jahr in der Niemandsbucht], both in length and in scope. This magnum opus, while not called specifically a novel, is by no...