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The New York Times Sunday Book Review had a of the latest of Handke’s novels, Crossing the Sierra de Gredos, to be translated into English. It’s not so positive:

HandkeÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½™s didactic refusal to let us make of his book what we will, his sedulous effort to keep us dizzy and confused, is, more than anything else, a way of infantalizing his readers. By the time weÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½™re done, weÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½™re feeling so put upon, so talked at, that itÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½™s difficult to respond with anything but adolescent sullenness.