Repetition

Peter Handke. Collier Books, $8.95 (246pp) ISBN 978-0-02-020762-7

``Handke's eminence, displayed in a substantial oeuvre of plays, novels and poems, is reaffirmed brilliantly by his latest work,'' praised PW . In 1960, an alienated, 20-year-old, nascent Austrian writer of Slovenian descent, embarks on a quest to the land of his forebears. (June)

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