About the book: 2024 / Handke’s prose is united by one idea: a meaningless, spiritual existence is disgusting to human nature. His characters are experiencing an acute internal discord with themselves and with the world around them, and do not allow themselves to feel “the bliss of life without convulsions and fear.” “A Short Letter to a Long Farewell” is a chronicle of the journey of a young writer experiencing a severe spiritual crisis. Due to a protracted conflict with his wife, who set out to kill him, he goes to America, where he moves from city to city, changing hotel after hotel, but in fact he is running from himself.