Moment of True Feeling

At The Beginning Of Nobel Prize Winner Peter Handke'S Novel A Moment Of True Feeling Gregor Keuschnig Awakens From A Nightmare In Which He Has Committed Murder And Announces From Today On I Shall Be Leading A Double Life.. The Duplicity However Lies Only In Keuschnig'S Mind; His Everyday Life As The Press Atache For The Austrian Embassy In Paris Continues Much As Before: Routine Paperwork Walks In The City Futile Intimacies With His Family And His Mistress. But Keuschnig Is Oblivious To It All Merely Simulating His Previous Identity While He Searches For A Higher Significance A Mystical Moment Of True Sensation Which Can Free Him From What The Novel Calls Life'S Dreadful Normalcy. Convinced That If He Fails Life'S Meaning Will Be Revealed To Him Only When It Is Too Late He Looks For Portents Everywhere.. Keuschnig'S Search Takes Him Through All Of Paris. At Every Step His Feelings Are Interwoven With Acute Observation Of Its Streets Buildings Cafes Parks Sky. It Is An Intimate And Evocative Journey In A City That Is At Once Supportive And Familiar Strange And Provocative.