Summary of Crossing the Sierra de Gredos
A powerful female banker, both loved and hated by people across the globe, embarks on a journey through the Sierra de Gredos mountains in central Spain to meet the author who is to write her biography. Along the way, she makes five stops, encountering fellow travellers at each stop. These stops symbolise different stages of her life and reflect the state of the world at large.
Reasons to read Crossing the Sierra de Gredos
“Crossing the Sierra de Gredos” is a modern pilgrimage of self-discovery. It is a philosophical and somewhat dreamlike novel about the influence of commercialisation and mass media on our lives. Peter Handke is an Austrian writer who has won many literary awards, including the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2019 and the Georg Büchner Prize in 1973. Other notable works by Peter Handke include his novel “Repetition”, his novella “A Sorrow Beyond Dreams”, and his plays “Offending the Audience” and “Kaspar”.
Setting: Sierra de Gredos, La Mancha (Spain)
Original title: Der Bildverlust oder Durch die Sierra de Gredos
Year of publication: 2002
Nr of pages: 480
