Echa „Podróży zimowej” Petera Handkego, czyli pisarz w ogniu krytyki. O konsekwencjach literackiej fascynacji baśniową Jugosławią w twórczości austriackiego noblisty

In the late autumn of 1995, Peter Handke traveled to Yugoslavia, a country scarred by civil war, which has always been an important point of reference in his work as a place to remember his multicultural roots. In many of his works, the writer returns to his native Carinthia, which in his eyes is an extension of the fairy-tale Yugoslavia, a country that has painfully disintegrated before his eyes. The result of this trip was an essay published a year later, A Journey to the Rivers. Justice for Serbia (Eine winterliche Reise zu den Flussen Donau, Save, Morawa und Drina oder Gerechtigkeit fur Serbien) and Handke’s intention was to target the media reporting on the Balkan war. The book very quickly became the subject of passionate discussion (the writer was accused of glorifying the perpetrators), its echoes were revived again in 2019 when Peter Handke was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.