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Essay on the Quite Place

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Essay on the Quite Place / Versuch über den Stillen Ort
In his Versuch über den Stillen Ort, Handke describes the uniqueness of tranquil places. Over the course of his life on several different continents, he has come to regard such places as distinctive – spaces that offer retreat by virtue of their seclusion. Yet at the same time they provide the strength to turn one’s attention towards others and the Other.


At the end of the last century, Peter Handke invented a new literary genre, the Versuch. His...
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In his Versuch über den Stillen Ort, Handke describes the uniqueness of tranquil places. Over the course of his life on several different continents, he has come to regard such places as distinctive – spaces that offer retreat by virtue of their seclusion. Yet at the same time they provide the strength to turn one’s attention towards others and the Other.


At the end of the last century, Peter Handke invented a new literary genre, the Versuch. His successful trilogy, which has been translated into many languages – Versuch über die Müdigkeit, Versuch über die Jukebox und Versuch über den geglückten Tag (published at FSG as The Jukebox and other essays on storytelling) – are not essays: they do not argue in favour or against a person or subject. Peter Handke’s Versuche are dialogues that revolve around an everyday event or an idea, presenting them in their various forms.

2012, 109 pages
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Peter Handke, born in 1942 in Griffen, Austria, lives near Paris. His books have been translated into more than 35 languages. In 2019, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Peter Handke, born in 1942 in Griffen, Austria, lives near Paris. His books have been translated into more than 35 languages. In 2019, he was...


OTHER PUBLICATIONS

The Ballad of the Last Guest
Year of Publication: 2023
Peter HandkeYear of Publication: 2023

Gregor returns home from another continent. The landscape, formerly characterised by its many villages, has become an urban agglomeration, both familiar and foreign at the same time. His family...

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English world rights (FSG), Spanish world rights and Catalan (Alianza), Sweden (Faethon), Turkey (Sia Kitap), Greece (Hestia)

The Time and The Spaces
Year of Publication: 2022
Peter HandkeYear of Publication: 2022

Since the early seventies, Peter Handke has filled thousands of pages in notebooks. The slim books, which have to fit in every shirt and jacket pocket, are indispensable companions on every journey. They are used to record ideas for literary projects, but, most importantly, things that Handke has seen, read and heard. »I practised reacting to everything that happened to me immediately...

Zwiegespräch
Year of Publication: 2022
Peter HandkeYear of Publication: 2022
One of them still remembers that visit to the theatre as a child: not the play, but the décor, the scenery. Archetypes that he recognises on his walks through the neighbouring villages, in a...
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Spanish world rights (Alianza), Catalan rights (Alianza), France (Gallimard), Italy (Guanda), Sweden (Faethon), Iran (Farhange Javid Publishing)

My Day in the Other Country
Year of Publication: 2021
Peter HandkeYear of Publication: 2021

His surroundings see him as a man possessed, »possessed not just by one, but by several, many, even countless demons«. During the day, he, a fruit grower by profession, walks through the village....

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English world rights (FSG), Spanish world rights (Alianza), Catalan rights (Alianza), France (Gallimard), Italy (Guanda), Sweden (Faethon), Norway (Pelikanen), Finland (Lurra), Poland (Eperons Ostrogi), Serbia (Laguna), Slovenia (Beletrina)

 

Zdeněk Adamec
Year of Publication: 2020
Peter HandkeYear of Publication: 2020

»An extensive scene«, a public place, »definitely not a free space«; possibly in the Spanish province of Avila or in Humpolec in Bohemia, now or at another time. A narrator who is one of...

Rights sold to:
France (Gallimard), Poland (Adit), Czech Republic (Větrné mlýny), Serbia (Laguna)
The Second Sword
Year of Publication: 2020
Peter HandkeYear of Publication: 2020

Returning to the area southwest of Paris after years of being on the road, three days later the hero was forced to set out again. In contrast to previous explorations of the world, this time he...

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English world rights (FSG), Spanish world rights (Alianza), Catalan rights (Alianza), Chinese simplex rights (Horizon), Chinese complex rights (Ecus), Russia (Eksmo), Brazilian Portuguese rights (Estação Liberdade), Portuguese rights (Relógio D’Água), France (Gallimard), Italy (Guanda), Netherlands (Wereldbibliotheek), Denmark (Batzer), Norway (Pelikanen), Poland (Eperons-Ostrogi), Romania (ART), Serbia (Laguna), Greece (Hestia), Armenia (Antares)

The Fruit Thief or A simple Trip into the Interior
Year of Publication: 2017
Peter HandkeYear of Publication: 2017

The Fruit Thief is nothing less than the book of the world: within it everything is possible, in both a positive as well as a negative sense. And reading it means: to have new experiences...

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English world rights (FSG), Spanish world rights (Alianza), Catalan rights (Alianza), Chinese simplex rights (Horizon), Chinese complex rights (Ecus), Russia (Eksmo), Portuguese rights (Relogio d'Agua), Arabic world rights (Kalima), France (Gallimard), Italy (Guanda), Sweden (Bonniers), Finland (Lurra), Estonia (Eesti Raamat), Serbia (Laguna), Greece (Gutenberg)

Days and Works
Year of Publication: 2015
Peter HandkeYear of Publication: 2015
In 2013, quietly and in solitude, Peter Handke celebrated his vocational anniversary: in June 1963 he became certain that »writing, taking notes, drawing connections, and leaving things...
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Italy (Guanda)

The Innocent, Me and the Unknown Woman by the Side of the Road
Year of Publication: 2015
Peter HandkeYear of Publication: 2015
The time frame, in which the new play by Peter Handke is set, is clearly denoted: it spans over »four seasons«. The place: a country road, a »common country road«? The protagonists: »I«, who is seated by the side of this country road. And who can transform from a dramatic player into an epic narrator.


»I« regards this road as »the last free road in this world, the last...
Side Entrance or Main Entrance?
Year of Publication: 2014
Peter Handke, Thomas OberenderYear of Publication: 2014
Peter Handke and Thomas Oberender recount the impressive history of Handke’s oeuvre in theatre, a life’s work that is incomparable »in regards to formal beauty and brilliant reflection«, as the jury declares in its explanatory statement for bestowing the International Ibsen Award 2014 upon Handke. Oberender asks as one with profound expertise in matters of the stage and as a sensitive...
Essay on the Mushroom Hunter
Year of Publication: 2013
Peter HandkeYear of Publication: 2013
In 2012, Peter Handke resumed his series of Versuche with his essay Versuch über den Stillen Ort. Just one year later, he brings it to a close, definitively, he claims,...
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USA (FSG), Chinese simplex rights (Horizon), Brazilian Portuguese rights (Estaçao Liberdade), Arabic world rights (Sefsafa), France (Gallimard), Italy (Guanda), Denmark (Batzer), Sweden (Faethon), Finland (Lurra), Poland (Eperons Ostrogi), Serbia (Laguna), Slovenia (Mohorjeva založba/Hermagoras), Greece (Hestia)

The Correspondence
Year of Publication: 2012
Peter Handke, Siegfried UnseldYear of Publication: 2012
»I am happy to announce that after reading your manuscript closely, we have decided to pub-lish your work at Suhrkamp Verlag.« This letter in August 1965 was the start of a correspon-dence consisting of nearly 600 letters in which Peter Handke finally congratulated the pub-lisher on his 75th birthday.


In their letters that stretched a period of over 35 years, Peter Handke and Siegfried...
The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez
Year of Publication: 2012
Peter HandkeYear of Publication: 2012
Characters: a nameless woman, a nameless man: a simple couple. They meet in order to talk about love, first loves, and what a man and a woman feel when they are with each other. They talk about how...
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Spanish world rights (Casus Belli), France (Bruit du Temps), Italy (Quodlibet), Norway (Samlaget), Japan (Ronsosha), Serbia (Laguna), Slovenia (Hermagoras/Mohorjeva založba), 

The Great Fall
Year of Publication: 2011
Peter HandkeYear of Publication: 2011
This is the story of a single day in the life of an actor, a flâneur, who is walking through a big city on a warm summer’s day, from the morning until the dead of night, from the...
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English world rights (Seagull), Spanish world rights (Alianza), Catalan rights (Rayo Verde), Chinese simplex rights (Horizon), Brazilian Portuguese rights (Estação Liberdade), Portuguese rights (Relogio d'Agua), Arabic world rights (Kanaan), France (Gallimard), Denmark (Rod & Co.), Norway (Paperback edition: Pelikanen), Finland (Lurra), Poland (Eperons-Ostrogi), Czech Republic (Rubato), Bulgaria (Paradox), Serbia (Laguna), Greece (Hestia), Macedonia (Ars Lamina), Georgia (Intelekti)

Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Italy (Garzanti)

Storm Still
Year of Publication: 2010
Peter HandkeYear of Publication: 2010
A panorama that reaches beyond all literary genres while simultaneously transforming them, here prose and drama, the theatrical and the poetical, the historical and the personal are...
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English world rights (Seagull), Spanish world rights (Casus Belli), Chinese simplex rights (Horizon), Arabic world rights (Kalima), France (Bruit du Temps), Italy (Quodlibet), Netherlands (Van Oorschot), Slovenia (Wieser), Serbia (Laguna)

Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Norway (Samlaget)

Till Day You Do Part Or A Question of Light
Year of Publication: 2009
Peter HandkeYear of Publication: 2009

»Described as an answer to or at least an echo of Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape?, Till Day You Do Part Or A Question of Light is a monologue delivered by the ›she‹ in...

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English world rights (Seagull), Spanish world rights (Casus Belli), Italy (Quodlibet), Bengali rights (Parampara)

Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Bulgaria (Black Flamingo)

The Cuckoos of Velika Hoca
Year of Publication: 2009
Peter HandkeYear of Publication: 2009
Peter Handke sets out for Velika Hoca, a Serbian enclave in southern Kosovo, on 6 May 2008: »Something was calling me to interview every single person in Serbian Kosovo extensively and in a...
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France (Différence), Sweden (Karneval), Serbia (Prometej)

The Moravian Night
Year of Publication: 2008
Peter HandkeYear of Publication: 2008
Place: the Balkans, the Morava, a tributary of the Danube, a riverboat.
Time: one night, from late evening to blue-streaked dawn.
Dramatis ...
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English world rights (FSG), Spanish world rights (Pocketbook edition: Alianza), Chinese simplex rights (Horizon), Brazilian Portuguese rights (Estação Liberdade), Portuguese rights (Relogio d'Agua), Arabic world rights (Aser-Elkotob), France (Gallimard), Netherlands (Wereldbibliotheek), Serbia (Laguna), Georgia (Intelekti)

Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Italy (Garzanti), Finland (Lurra)

Potash
Year of Publication: 2007
Peter HandkeYear of Publication: 2007

Peter Handke’s last novel Don Juan reported on his experiences with women during a world trip. At the time, Neue Zürcher Zeitung wrote: »This is Handke-country, in a way that no...

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Spanish world rights (Alianza), Chinese simplex rights (Horizon), France (Gallimard), Italy (Garzanti), Netherlands (Wereldbibliotheek), Denmark (Gyldendal), Poland (Eperons-Ostrogi), Turkey (Can)

The Tablas de Daimiel
Year of Publication: 2006
Peter HandkeYear of Publication: 2006

His relationship with Serbia and Slobodan Miloševic not only brought Handke a lot of criticism, they also led to a lot of undifferentiated defamation. In Paris, one of his plays was removed from...

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Spanish world rights (Tresmolins), Sweden (Karneval), Serbia (Prometej)


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