VOYAGE BY DUGOUT , THE PLAY THAT CAME OUT OF THE YUGO WAR EPERIENCES

"We not only own the language of the war, we own its image. And we own what is most universal of all: The stories of the images! " 


The Greek Reporter:

Youappear in the name of goodness, yet you have never left behind theleast goodness in this country. Helpers? You’ve never helped yet. Thereis a kind of indifference more helpful than your humanitariangesticulating. Your right hand caresses some like Mother Teresa whileyour left hand raises the sword of a criminal court against the others.Puny devils of goodness. Humanitarian hyenas. Aloof and formal in theface of suffering – you officious and public humanitarians. Marscorporations masquerading as guardians of human rights. You claim to behumanitarian sheriffs – and the humanitarian sheriffs in the westerns,isn’t it true, Mr. O’Hara, were usually incompetent or secretlycorrupt. They were the villains.

O’HARA

Aren’t those prejudices, my son?

MACHADO

Lethim expresshis prejudices, John. Prejudices make good film plots.

GREEK

Thewar has madethe people from here bad, worse than they are. You carpetbaggers havebecomebad with the war, like you really are. Deaf and blind – unfortunately,notspeechless, not speechless at all.

THIRD

Medievalrhetoric.

GREEK

Thosewho wieldsentences as bludgeons have the power. In earlier despotic regimes,that wasthe politicians. Now it is you. And while the small peoples here foughtforscraps of earth, you conquered the whole world. In word and image thedespoticlords over reality, you power rangers. Internationals?Extraterrestrials.International court? Universal stingrays.

FIRST

You’re notimagining an about face? We have to continue the way we began. Weare now prisoners of our initial opinion. We must continue morevigorously,more shrilly, and above all in a monotone – monotone – monotone. That’s theway it is. That’s thestate of affairs. It’strue: We’resick of what we do, so sick of it. And we’resick of each other. But what can we do? Should we suddenly say: Theotherones, the ones not from here, are also guilty? Guilty in a differentway?Impossible! That’s notthe point. We must continue as we began, in full voice and ifnecessary with empty hearts. That’s thewayit is. That’s the way it has to be. We are the language.

[From VOYAGE BY DUGOUT, see the pages devoted to it at the handkedrama2.scriptmania.com site [link below]




Here are the links to the various sites
devoted to Handke's drama work:

As the translator of Handke's plays up to and including WALK ABOUT THE VILLAGES I wanted to call  your attention to three sites devoted to his dramas.,
http://www.handkedrama.scriptmania.com/index.html

http://www.handkedrama2.scriptmania.com/index.html

http://www.handkedrama3.scriptmania.com/index.html

,,in addition there is most of a Handke lecture of mine on line at,the handkelecture site, and a handkedrama-blogspot [links anon],LINK OF LYNXES TO MOST HANDKE MATERIAL AND BLOGS ON THE WEB:,, http://www.handke.scriptmania.com/favorite_links_1.html

http://handke-drama.blogspot.com/


http://www.handkelectures.freeservers.com/index.html

INTRA-LINK PAGES  TO THE HANDKE-YUGO, REVISTA-OF-REVIEWS AND HANDKE-SCHOLAR BLOGS 

 1] http://handke-yugo.blogspot.com/2010/05/links-page-for-pages-of-this-blog.html

2] http://handke-yugo.blogspot.com/2010/05/lead-page-periodically-updated_10.html

3] http://handke-yugo.blogspot.com/2010/05/opening-salvo-open-letter-decimation-of.html

4] http://handke-yugo.blogspot.com/2010/05/psychoanalytic-page-mass-and-class_15.html

5] http://handke-yugo.blogspot.com/2010/05/summary-of-handke-yugo-controrsy.html

6] http://handke-yugo.blogspot.com/2010/05/austrian-writer-peter-handke-european.html

7] http://handke-yugo.blogspot.com/2010/05/voyage-by-dugout-play-that-came-out-of_10.html

8] http://handke-yugo.blogspot.com/2010/05/dear-mrrs-sulzberger-kelleret-al-i.html

9] http://handke-yugo.blogspot.com/2010/05/back-ground-texts-habermas-etc.html

10] http://handke-yugo.blogspot.com/2010/05/roloff-breviary-of-handke-position.html

11] http://handke-yugo.blogspot.com/2010/05/handke-die-tablas-des-daimiel-with.html

12] http://handke-yugo.blogspot.com/2010/05/discussion-page.html

13] http://handke-yugo.blogspot.com/2010/05/consequences.html

14] http://handke-yugo.blogspot.com/2010/04/history-of-yugo-slavia-and-its-break-up.html

15] http://handke-yugo.blogspot.com/2010/04/human-rights-watch-resource-for-crimes.html

16] http://handke-yugo.blogspot.com/2010/04/interviews-with-handke-about-his.html

17] http://handke-yugo.blogspot.com/2010/04/cross-sections-of-opinions-on.html

18] http://handke-yugo.blogspot.com/2010/04/two-futher-handke-pieces-in-german-on.html

19] http:/handke-yugo.blogspot.com/2010/04/gerechtigkeit-fuer-serbien-by-peter.html

20] http://handke-yugo.blogspot.com/2010/04/sorting-out-handkes-intervention-in.html

21] http://handke-yugo.blogspot.com/2010/04/this-is-first-piece-i-wrote-on-subject.html

22] http://handke-yugo.blogspot.com/2010/05/roloff-summary-of-handke-yugo.html

23] http://handke-yugo.blogspot.com/2010/05/handke-yugoslav-intervention-reception.html

24]    

http://handke-yugo.blogspot.com/2010/05/links-to-scott-abbotts-work-on-handke.html

25] http://handke-yugo.blogspot.com/2010/05/roloff-summary-take-on-handkes.html

 http://handke-scholar.blogspot.com/2010/05/thomas-barry-on-handke-himeji-dokkyo.html

http://handke-scholar.blogspot.com/2010/05/lead-page-handke-scholar-periodically.html

http://handke-scholar.blogspot.com/2010/05/goethe-and-handke-and-goethe.html

http://handke-scholar.blogspot.com/2010/05/peter-strasser-das-subjekt-der-dichtung.html 

One blog page devoted to each title eventually...

http://handke--revista-of-reviews.blogspot.com/2010/05/my-year-in-no-mans-bay-niemandsbuch-t.htmlhttp://handke--revista-of-reviews.blogspot.com/2010/03/handke-revista-of-reviews.html [lead page]

http://handke--revista-of-reviews.blogspot.com/2010/05/kali-saltworks-which-has-not-been.html

http://handke--revista-of-reviews.blogspot.com/2010/05/slow-home-coming-german-and-english.html
http://handke--revista-of-reviews.blogspot.com/2010/05/essay-on-juke-box-daniel-gutmann-etc.html

http://handke--revista-of-reviews.blogspot.com/2010/05/one-dark-night-i-left-my-silent-house.html

http://handke--revista-of-reviews.blogspot.com/2010/05/left-handed-woman-scott-abbott-and-few.htm
lhttp://handke--revista-of-reviews.blogspot.com/2010/05/william-gass-review-ofmy-year-in-no.html

http://handke--revista-of-reviews.blogspot.com/2010/05/long-piece-on-handkes-moravian-night.html

http://handke--revista-of-reviews.blogspot.com/2010/05/goalies-anxiety-at-penalty-kick.html