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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Review of 'The leavetaking.' on 'Goodreads'

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