The leavetaking.

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Peter Weiss: The leavetaking. (1962, Harcourt, Brace & World)

137 pages

English language

Published Nov. 17, 1962 by Harcourt, Brace & World.

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3 stars (1 review)

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3 stars

came into this expecting something very different than what it was, being more familiar with the relentless objectivity of the aesthetics of resistance, new trial, marat / sade than weiss' other prose works. this is more in a thomas bernhard vein i.e., unfolds like a thinly fictionalised autobiographical rant, full of sexual neuroses and childhood traumas. its formally flawless, but the confessional aspects put me off