Peter Handke, Nobel Prize winner in 2019, wrote this work in 1990. The jukebox was a machine used in bars to select CDs and songs. It was in fashion in the 60s and 70s. In actual fact, this book is a meta-story, that is to say, a story about how to write a story.
The highlights of this book are the descriptions of the places where it travels to: Soria, Logroño, Burgos and Saragossa. One also finds Christian references which speak of the Romanesque beauty of the Church of St Dominic in Soria, Saint Teresa, etc.
The author admires the works of the Spanish mystics of the 16th century. He knows how to pique the reader’s interest through the beauty of his descriptions and his clever and tight narration.