A panorama that extends far beyond all literary genres while simultaneously assimilating them. Here, prose and drama, theatrical and poetic elements, historical and personal narratives intertwine. The Jaunfeld, in southern Austria, in Carinthia: Here, around an "I," gather its ancestors: the grandparents and their children, among them the narrator's own mother. Is Peter Handke crafting an exemplary family tragedy in scenes? Is he recounting the epic of a people, the Slovenes, through individual milestones? Is he depicting the historical drama of eternal losers? Or is he turning, in a narrative-dramatic way, back to his own biography, its prerequisites and consequences?.