On a Dark Night I Left My Silent House

On A Dark Night I Left My Silent House Is Nobel Prize Winner Peter Handke'S Evocative Moving Often Fantastic Short Novel About One Man'S Conflict With Himself And His Journey Toward Resolution. . During One Night Shift An Unnamed Middle-Aged Pharmacist In Taxham An Isolated Suburb Of Salzburg Tells His Story To A Narrator. The Pharmacist Is Known And Well-Respected But Lonely And Estranged From His Wife. He Feels Most Comfortable Wandering About In Nature Collecting And Eating Hallucinogenic Mushrooms. One Day He Receives A Blow To The Head That Leaves Him Unable To Speak And The Narrative Is Transformed From Ironic Description Into A Collection Of Sensual Impressions Observations And Reflections. . The Pharmacist Who Is Now Called The Driver Sets Out On A Quest Travelling Into The Alps With Two Companions—A Former Olympic Skiing Champion And A Formerly Famous Poet--Where He Is Beaten And Later Stalked By A Woman. He Drives Through A Tunnel And Has A Premonition Of Death Then Finds Himself In A Surreal Foreign Land. In A Final Series Of Bizarre Cathartic Events The Driver Regains His Speech And Is Taken Back To His Pharmacy—Back To His Former Life But Forever Changed. . A Powerful Poetic Exploration Of Language Longing And Dislocation In The Human Experience On A Dark Night I Left My Silent House Reveals Handke At His Magical Best.