”Questions in tears” is the name of the now completed collection of eight essays, including the essay called ”A winter journey to the rivers Danube, Sava, Morava and Drina, or justice for Serbia” from 1996. Also included is ”Summer postscript to a winter journey” from the same year.
All debaters thought they knew what Handke thought and believed, but probably very few had read them. They have to a large extent only existed in German, says Björn Eklund, publisher at Karneval publishing house.
When Peter Handke received the Nobel Prize in 2019, it was primarily these essays that were debated. Some meant that Handke wanted to replace facts with an alternative truth about the guilt in the war, by taking a stand for the Serbs. Others emphasized that he wanted to balance a one-sided portrayal of the Serbs as "barbarians" and "butchers".
