Peter handke most famous work
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The New Yorker, October 16, 2000 P. 92
Talk story about the lyrics for Joseph Wecker’s computer code song "Descramble" and DeCSS software, which is to computer video what Napster is to audio. . . The lyrics of "Descramble" are passages from a controversial software code, DeCSS, that enables hackers to decrypt movie DVDs... and, if they wish, share their pirated films with anyone on the Internet. The code, which was created a year ago by a fifteen-year-old computer whiz in Norway, drew immediate reprisals from the movie industry. . . In the midst of the court case, Wecker, a twenty-two-year-old college student and computer programmer in Salt Lake City, came up with the idea to compose, record, and upload "Descramble," a seven-and-a-half-minute recitation of the code... In this way, as Wecker saw it, the code would be protected by the First Amendment. ." "Descramble" is not particularly easy to sing along to... But it is lucky. The best thing that can happen to a protest song is for it to be banned somewhere, and now Wecker has a hit.
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On December 10, 2019, the Austrian writer Peter Handke received the Nobel Prize in Literature. If he felt pride or triumph, he didn’t show it. His bow tie askance above an ill-fitting white dress shirt, his eyes unsmiling behind his trademark round glasses, Handke looked resigned and stoical, as if he were submitting to a bothersome medical procedure. As he accepted his award, some of the onlookers—not all of whom joined in the applause—appeared equally grim.
Handke embarked on his career, in the nineteen-sixties, as a provocateur, with absurdist theatrical works that eschewed action, character, and dialogue for, in the words of one critic, “anonymous, threatening rants.” One of his early plays, titled “Offending the Audience,” ends with the actors hurling insults at the spectators. In the following decades, as he produced dozens of plays and novels, he turned his experiments with language inward, exploring both its possibilities and its limitations in evoking human consciousness. W. G. Sebald, who was deeply influenced by Handke, wrote, “The specific narrative genre he develop
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