The Fruit Thief or A simple Trip into the Interior
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The Fruit Thief or A simple Trip into the Interior / Die Obstdiebin oder Einfache Fahrt ins Landesinnere
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 beyond everything previously imagined or depicted. In sum: a brand new novel from Peter Handke.
Peter Handke’s latest novel recounts three days in the life of the fruit thief: on an August day shortly before her departure for Picardy, the wanderer meets her father who wants to give her a...Read more
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 beyond everything previously imagined or depicted. In sum: a brand new novel from Peter Handke.
Peter Handke’s latest novel recounts three days in the life of the fruit thief: on an August day shortly before her departure for Picardy, the wanderer meets her father who wants to give her a few pointers on how she should act. Alexia, as she is known, and her mother, the banker, had made amends after she travelled around the world. Now, during her stay in Ile-de-France, Alexia renounces her favourite (illegal?) pastime in order to prepare for something new. But what? The experience of the landscape? The risk of friendship? Or everything? And, most of all, adventure itself? Alexia’s openness allows her to experience everyday life in an exceptionally intense way and provides her with an experience of the world in images from never-before-known dimensions. »What she experienced in the three days of her trip into the interior: strange. Or not? No, strange indeed. Enduringly strange. Eternally strange.«»It’s very appealing that the The Fruit Thief flitters between a character of flesh and blood and a phantasm throughout the entire story.« Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
»In contrast to what the author might believe, the strength of this, as well as his other epic projects, does not lie in the world-spanning gesture of the narrator. But instead in the passages where he allows his Doppelgänger to go first, the drafter of notes and the master of prose of the present moment.« Süddeutsche Zeitung
»Like all of Handke’s books, The Fruit Thief is a very strange book, one that is aware of its strangeness. It contains marvellous and unusual things and, as one might expect in the case of a modern Parzival, the occasional wound – which the narration cannot heal, but at most cover.« Die literarische Welt
»In short, this book is a delight, an additional milestone in the oeuvre of one of the great authors of our time.« WDR
»Transformation is the keyword in Handke’s project of a new epic narration.« Tages-Anzeiger
»Peter Handke’s new novel The Fruit Thief is this autumn’s sensation.« profil
»It’s very appealing that the The Fruit Thief flitters between a character of flesh and blood and a phantasm throughout the entire story.« Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
»In contrast to what the author might believe, the strength of this, as well as his other epic projects, does not lie in the world-spanning gesture of the narrator. But instead in the passages where he allows his Doppelgänger to go first, the drafter of notes and the...
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2017, 559 pages
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Peter Handke
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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
Author
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...
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Year of Publication: 2023
Peter HandkeYear of Publication: 2023
The Ballad of the Last Guest
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)
Year of Publication: 2022
Peter HandkeYear of Publication: 2022
The Time and The Spaces
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...
Year of Publication: 2022
Peter HandkeYear of Publication: 2022
Zwiegespräch
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)
Year of Publication: 2021
Peter HandkeYear of Publication: 2021
My Day in the Other Country
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)
Year of Publication: 2020
Peter HandkeYear of Publication: 2020
Zdeněk Adamec
»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...
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France (Gallimard), Poland (Adit), Czech Republic (Větrné mlýny), Serbia (Laguna)
Year of Publication: 2020
Peter HandkeYear of Publication: 2020
The Second Sword
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)
Year of Publication: 2015
Peter HandkeYear of Publication: 2015
Days and Works
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)
Year of Publication: 2015
Peter HandkeYear of Publication: 2015
The Innocent, Me and the Unknown Woman by the Side of the Road
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...
»I« regards this road as »the last free road in this world, the last...
Year of Publication: 2014
Peter Handke, Thomas OberenderYear of Publication: 2014
Side Entrance or Main Entrance?
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...
Year of Publication: 2013
Peter HandkeYear of Publication: 2013
Essay on the Mushroom Hunter
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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Year of Publication: 2012
Peter Handke, Siegfried UnseldYear of Publication: 2012
The Correspondence
»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...
In their letters that stretched a period of over 35 years, Peter Handke and Siegfried...
Year of Publication: 2012
Peter HandkeYear of Publication: 2012
Essay on the Quite Place
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...
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Year of Publication: 2012
Peter HandkeYear of Publication: 2012
The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez
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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Year of Publication: 2011
Peter HandkeYear of Publication: 2011
The Great Fall
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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Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Italy (Garzanti)
Year of Publication: 2010
Peter HandkeYear of Publication: 2010
Storm Still
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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Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Norway (Samlaget)
Year of Publication: 2009
Peter HandkeYear of Publication: 2009
Till Day You Do Part Or A Question of Light
»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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Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Bulgaria (Black Flamingo)
Year of Publication: 2009
Peter HandkeYear of Publication: 2009
The Cuckoos of Velika Hoca
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)
Year of Publication: 2008
Peter HandkeYear of Publication: 2008
The Moravian Night
Place: the Balkans, the Morava, a tributary of the Danube, a riverboat.
Time: one night, from late evening to blue-streaked dawn.
Dramatis ...
Time: one night, from late evening to blue-streaked dawn.
Dramatis ...
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Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Italy (Garzanti), Finland (Lurra)
Year of Publication: 2007
Peter HandkeYear of Publication: 2007
Potash
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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Year of Publication: 2006
Peter HandkeYear of Publication: 2006
The Tablas de Daimiel
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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