I Am an Inhabitant of the Ivory Tower
Chinese simplex rights (Horizon), France (Christian Bourgois), Japan (Daisan Shobo), Poland (Eperons-Ostrogi)
Both the title of this volume as well as the content of the eponymous essay are an ironic provocation of that literature that likes to call itself a realist one. By applying the verdict of this normative conception of literature to himself, Handke actively defends the epistemological and reality-depicting function of the literary method against the fiction of a self-sufficient fable.
The essays collected here, the general-theoretical ones as well as the reviews of movies and...
Both the title of this volume as well as the content of the eponymous essay are an ironic provocation of that literature that likes to call itself a realist one. By applying the verdict of this normative conception of literature to himself, Handke actively defends the epistemological and reality-depicting function of the literary method against the fiction of a self-sufficient fable.
The essays collected here, the general-theoretical ones as well as the reviews of movies and books and those that refer to current politics (such as »The Tautologies of the Justice System«), contain programmatic statements on the current situation of culture and society. And they are the expression of a complex temper.
Persons
Peter Handke
Peter Handke, born in 1942 in Griffen, Austria, lives near Paris. His books have been translated into more than 40 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 40 languages. In 2019, he was...
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
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...
Zwiegespräch
Spanish world rights (Alianza), Catalan rights (Alianza), France (Gallimard), Italy (Guanda), Sweden (Faethon), Iran (Farhange Javid Publishing)
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....
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), Greece (Kritiki)
The Fruit Thief or A simple Trip into the Interior
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...
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), Turkey (Ayrinti), Greece (Gutenberg)
Days and Works
Italy (Guanda)
The Innocent, Me and the Unknown Woman by the Side of the Road
»I« regards this road as »the last free road in this world, the last...
Essay on the Quite Place
USA (FSG), Spanish world rights (Alianza), Chinese simplex rights (Horizon), Brazilian Portuguese rights (Estaçao Liberdade), Portuguese rights (Relogio d'Agua), Arabic world rights (Sefsafa), France (Gallimard), Italy (Guanda), Denmark (Batzer), Sweden (Faethon), Finland (Lurra), Poland (Eperons Ostrogi), Serbia (Laguna), Greece (Hestia)
The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez
Spanish world rights (Casus Belli), France (Bruit du Temps), Italy (Quodlibet), Norway (Samlaget), Japan (Ronsosha), Serbia (Laguna), Slovenia (Hermagoras/Mohorjeva založba), Greece (Vakxikon)
Storm Still
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)
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...
Spanish world rights (Alianza), Chinese simplex rights (Horizon), France (Gallimard), Italy (Garzanti), Netherlands (Wereldbibliotheek), Denmark (Gyldendal), Poland (Eperons-Ostrogi), Turkey (Can)
Crossing the Sierra de Gredos
It is a woman whose adventures are the subject of this book. She – the...
English world rights (FSG), Spanish world rights (Pocketbook edition: Alianza), Chinese simplex rights (Horizon), Brazilian Portuguese rights (Estação Liberdade), France (Gallimard), Italy (Garzanti), Serbia (Laguna), Greece (Exandas)
Voyage by Dugout or The Play of the Film of the War
Two directors meet in the foyer of the Hotel Acapulco in a small provincial town in the heart of the Balkan in order to cast the actors for a planned film on the war that took place in the area a...
Chinese simplex rights (Horizon), Italy (Quodlibet)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Spanish world rights (Hiru), France (La Différence), Serbia (Paideia), Greece (Exandas)
On a Dark Night I Left My Silent House
On a Dark Night I Left My Silent House is Peter Handke's evocative, moving, often...
English world rights (FSG), Spanish world rights (Pocketbook edition: Alianza), Chinese complex rights (Ecus), Brazilian Portuguese rights (Estação Liberdade), Arabic world rights (Al Arabi), France (Gallimard), Italy (Ugo Guanda), Korea (Munhakdongne), Vietnam (Domino Books), Poland (Eperons-Ostrogi), Slovakia (Slovensky Spisovatel), Lithuania (Alma Littera), Turkey (SIA Kitap), Albania (Aleph)
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Summer Postscript to a Winter Journey
Spanish world rights (Pocketbook edition: Alianza), Chinese simplex rights (Horizon), Italy (Guanda), Sweden (Karneval), Norway (Pelikanen), Korea (Jongmunhwasa), Japan (Hosei UP), Serbia (Prometej)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: France (Gallimard)
My Year In No Man's Bay
English world rights (FSG), Spanish world rights (Pocketbook edition: Alianza), Chinese simplex rights (Horizon), Brazilian Portuguese rights (Estação Liberdade), France (Gallimard), Italy (Garzanti), Netherlands (de Prom), Denmark (Batzer), Sweden (Bonniers), Norway (Gyldendal Norsk), Finland (Lurra), Slovenia (Beletrina), Turkey (Alfa)
Essay on the Successful Day
USA (FSG), Spanish world rights (Alianza), Chinese simplex rights (Horizon), Russia (Jaromir Hladik Press), Brazilian Portuguese rights (Estaçao Liberdade), Portuguese rights (Relogio d'Agua), Arabic world rights (Sefsafa), France (Gallimard), Netherlands (Koppernik), Denmark (Batzer), Sweden (Faethon), Norway (Gyldendal Norsk), Finland (Lurra), Poland (Eperons Ostrogi), Czech Republic (Prostor), Romania (ART), Serbia (Laguna), Slovenia (Wieser), Greece (Hestia)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Italy (Garzanti)
Once Again for Thucydides
»Once Again for Thucydides is a collection of seventeen ›micro-epics‹ written by Peter Handke on trips around the world, from the Balkans to the Pyrenees, from Salzburg to the sea...
English world rights (New Directions), Spanish world rights (Tresmolins), France (Christian Bourgois), Slovenia (Hiša poezije), Serbia (Prometej)
Domestic rights sales: German paperback edition (Reclam – published, rights reverted)
Essay on Tiredness
USA (FSG), Spanish world rights (Pocketbook edition: Alianza), Chinese simplex rights (Horizon), Russia (Jaromir Hladik Press), Brazilian Portuguese rights (Estaçao Liberdade), Portuguese rights (Relogio d'Agua), Arabic world rights (Sefsafa), France (Gallimard), Netherlands (Koppernik), Denmark (Batzer), Sweden (Faethon), Norway (Gyldendal Norsk), Finland (Lurra), Poland (Eperons Ostrogi), Czech Republic (Prostor), Romania (ART), Serbia (Laguna), Slovenia (Wieser), Greece (Hestia), Farsi (Roozbahan Publication)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Italy (Garzanti)
The Afternoon of a Writer
Peter Handke’s story published in 1987 is set on an afternoon in December. Work at the desk is finished for the day, it won’t be continued until the following morning: an in-between-time, then....
USA & Canada (FSG), Spanish world rights (Trade edition: Alfaguara), Catalan rights (Edicions 62), Chinese simplex rights (Horizon), Brazilian Portuguese rights (Estação Liberdade), Portuguese rights (Relogio d'Agua), France (Gallimard), Italy (Ugo Guanda), Denmark (Batzer), Korea (Open Books), Japan (Hosei UP), Turkey (Alfa), Greece (Hestia)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Estonia (Loomingu Raamatukogu)
Absence
The four protagonists, the old man, the woman, the soldier and the gambler, move through a kind of phantastical topography across continents and time. They have broken free of daily...
USA & Canada (FSG), UK & Commonwealth (Methuen), Spanish world rights (Pocketbook edition: Alianza), France (Gallimard), Norway (Gyldendal Norsk)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Brazilian Portuguese rights (Rocco), Italy (Garzanti), Netherlands (de Fontein), Sweden (Bonniers), Finland (Otava), Romania (Excelsior), Greece (Dorikis)
Ode to Permanence
Not an essay, not a scene, not a story – an ode to permanence, as though it were a living being, something physical, as though one could talk to it. The ode as an offering, a courtship, as...
Spanish world rights (Trade edition: Alfaguara), Catalan rights (Eumo), Chinese simplex rights (Horizon), Portuguese rights (Assirio & Alvim), France (Gallimard), Italy (Einaudi), Netherlands (Koppernik), Greece (Vakxikon)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Serbia (Interpress), Slovenia (Drava)
Repetition
Peter Handke’s epic work, in which the muses are called upon not in the beginning but at the end, is both story and exploration of the story, its genesis and importance at the same...
USA & Canada (FSG), UK & Commonwealth (Penguin UK), Spanish world rights (Pocketbook edition: Alianza), Chinese simplex rights (Horizon), France (Gallimard), Italy (Guanda), Finland (Otava), Korea (Jongmunhwasa), Japan (Hosei UP), Vietnam (FORMApubli), Serbia (Prometej), Turkey (Jaguar)
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Across
While working on »The Long Way Around«, Peter Handke noted: »Sometimes the notion a writer had mainly one duty: to immortalise a landscape. – But how? – With the stories of humans.« Peter...
USA & Canada (FSG), Spanish world rights (Trade edition: Alfaguara), Chinese simplex rights (Horizon), France (Gallimard), Sweden (Bonniers)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: UK & Commonwealth (Methuen), Portuguese rights (Relogio d'Agua), Italy (Garzanti), Netherlands (Arbeiderspers), Norway (Gyldendal Norsk), Finland (Weilin & Göös), Czech Republic (Prostor), Hungary (Europa), Greece (Agrostis)
Walk About the Village
A conflict develops between siblings Gregor, Hans and Sophie about their parents‘ hose. As the eldest son, Gregor has inherited the house and the piece of land after the...
UK & Commonwealth (Methuen), Spanish world rights (Pocketbook edition: Alianza), Chinese simplex rights (Horizon), Russia (Eksmo), France (Gallimard), Italy (Quodlibet), Serbia (Laguna)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: USA & Canada (Ariadne Press), Italy (Garzanti), Netherlands (Arbeiderspers), Bulgaria (Narodna Kultura)
Child Story
In Child Story Peter Handke depicts the first ten years in the life of a child and the story of the corresponding adult. Far from any sort of belittlement but also free of any pedagogical...
USA & Canada (FSG), UK & Commonwealth (Methuen), Spanish world rights (Pocketbook edition: Alianza), Chinese simplex rights (Horizon), Russia (Eksmo), Arabic world rights (Kalima), France (Gallimard), Netherlands (Koppernik), Iceland (Ugla), Korea (Minumsa), Serbia (Laguna), Turkey (Metis), Greece (Koukkida), Mongolia (Monsudar)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Brazilian Portuguese rights (Companhia das Letras), Italy (Garzanti), Sweden (Bonniers), Norway (Gyldendal Norsk), Japan (Dogakusha), Bulgaria (Narodna Kultura), Hungary (Magvetö), Romania (ART)
The Lesson of Mont Sainte-Victoire
The story The Long Way Around ends when the airplane begins its decent onto the continent. The first sentence of The Lesson of Mont Sainte-Victoire is: »Having returned...
USA & Canada (FSG), UK & Commonwealth (Methuen), Spanish world rights (Pocketbook edition: Alianza), Chinese simplex rights (Horizon), Russia (Eksmo), France (Gallimard), Netherlands (Koppernik), Korea (Art Books), Serbia (Laguna)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Italy (Garzanti), Sweden (Bonniers), Norway (Gyldendal Norsk), Bulgaria (Narodna Kultura)
The Long Way Around
For many years, Valentin Sorger was far away from everything that could be subsumised under the terms »home« or »family«. In his zest for being, conscious of his strength, he had given up...
USA & Canada (FSG), UK & Commonwealth (Methuen), Spanish world rights (Trade edition: Cuenco de Plata; Pocketbook edition: Alianza), Chinese simplex rights (Horizon), Russia (Eksmo), Arabic world rights (Al Arabi), France (Gallimard), Netherlands (Koppernik), Sweden (Bonniers), Norway (Gyldendal Norsk), Serbia (Laguna), Albania (Aleph), Armenia (Antares)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Italy (Garzanti), Bulgaria (Narodna Kultura)
The Left-Handed Woman
One evening, when Marianne and her husband, Bruno, are dining out together to celebrate his return from a business trip, Marianne listens to him speak and realizes suddenly yet finally that Bruno...
USA & Canada (FSG), UK & Commonwealth (Penguin UK), Spanish world rights (Pocketbook edition: Alianza), Chinese simplex rights (Horizon), Chinese complex rights (Ecus), Russia (AST), Brazilian Portuguese rights (Estação Liberdade), Portuguese rights (Relogio d'Agua), Arabic world rights (Dar al Adab), France (Gallimard), Italy (Ugo Guanda), Sweden (Bonniers), Norway (Gyldendal Norsk), Vietnam (Domino), Bulgaria (Narodna Kultura), Romania (ART), Serbia (Laguna), Albania (Aleph)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Asturian rights (Trabe), Chinese complex rights (W&K), Netherlands (Arbeiderspers), Denmark (Gyldendal), Finland (Weilin & Göös), Japan (Dogakusha), Poland (Czytelnik), Czech Republic (ASA 200), Hungary (Europa), Turkey (Kirmizi Yayinlari), Greece (Melani), Ukraine (Junivers), Israel (Schocken)
A Moment of True Feeling
»At the beginning of Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke's novel A Moment of True Feeling, Gregor Keuschnig awakens from a nightmare in which he has committed murder, and announces,...
USA & Canada (FSG), Spanish world rights (Trade edition: Alfaguara), Chinese simplex rights (Horizon), France (Gallimard), Portuguese rights (Relogio d'Agua), Sweden (Bonniers), Korea (E-Sang), Turkey (SIA Kitap)
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A Sorrow Beyond Dreams
»My mother has been dead for almost seven weeks: I had better go to work before the need to write about her, which I felt so strongly at her funeral, dies away and I fall back into the dull...
USA & Canada (print: FSG), UK & Commonwealth (print: Pushkin Press), English world rights (digital: Pushkin Press), Welsh (O'r Pedwar Gwynt), Spanish world rights (Alianza), Catalan rights (L’Avenc), Chinese simplex rights (Horizon), Chinese complex rights (Ecus), Russia (AST), Portuguese rights (Relogio d'Agua), Arabic world rights (Al Arabi), France (Gallimard), Italy (Guanda), Netherlands (Wereldbibliotheek), Sweden (Bonniers), Norway (Gyldendal Norsk), Finland (Lurra), Iceland (Ugla), Korea (Minumsa), Japan (Hosei UP), Sri Lanka (BOOK Rack Publishers), Poland (Eperons-Ostrogi), Hungary (Trubadúr), Romania (ART), Estonia (Tänapäev), Croatia (Fraktura), Serbia (Laguna), Slovenia (Beletrina), Turkey (SIA Kitap), Greece (Hestia), Georgia (Intelekti), Armenia (Antares), Israel (Hakkibutz Hameuchad – Sifriyat Poalim), Bengali rights (Jadavpur University Press), Marathi rights (Walden Publication)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Bulgaria (Black Flamingo), Macedonia (Magor)
The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick
The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick is a true modern classic that ›portrays the […] breakdown of a murderer in ways that recall Camus's The Stranger‹ (The New York...
USA & Canada (FSG), UK & Commonwealth (Penguin UK), Spanish world rights (Trade edition: Alfaguara; Pocketbook edition: Alianza), Catalan rights (Edicions 62), Basque rights (Elkar), Chinese simplex rights (Horizon), Chinese complex rights (Ecus), Russia (AST), Brazilian Portuguese rights (Estação Liberdade), Portuguese rights (Relogio d'Agua), Arabic world rights (Al Kamel), France (Gallimard), Italy (Ugo Guanda), Netherlands (Koppernik), Denmark (Batzer), Sweden (Bonniers), Norway (Gyldendal Norsk), Iceland (Ugla), Korea (Minumsa), Japan (Sanshusha), Poland (Officyna), Romania (ART), Estonia (Tänapäev), Croatia (Fraktura), Serbia (Laguna), Turkey (Ayrinti), Greece (Gutenberg), Georgia (Intelekti), Armenia (Antares)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Czech Republic (Rubato), Hungary (Helikon), Bulgaria (Black Flamingo), Israel (Hakibbutz Hameuchad)
The Ride Across Lake Constance
»The […] play The Ride Across Lake Constance, deals directly with one of Handke's favorite themes: the realities of theater itself, independent of the offstage world, and the way language...
USA & Canada (FSG), UK & Commonwealth (Bloomsbury), France (L’Arche), Italy (Quodlibet), Korea (io-edition)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Spain (Institut del Teatre), Netherlands (Bruna), Poland (Ksiegarnia Academicka)
The Innerworld of the Outerworld of the Innerworld
What the texts of this volume share is that they use a grammatical model and realise this model in sentences formulated according to the model. Each of the sentences is an example, a play with...
Chinese simplex rights (Horizon), France (Christian Bourgois), Serbia (Laguna; audiobook rights: Voxa), Greece (Vakxikon)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: USA & Canada (Seabury Press), Italy (Feltrinelli)
Offending the Audience and Other Spoken Pieces
These three pieces without a plot, without a scenenery, and without props are spoken pieces that, built around the sound elements of beat music, make language itself its content, they are attempts...
Publikumsbeschimpfung [Offending the Audience]: USA & Canada (FSG), UK & Commonwealth (Bloomsbury), Spanish world rights (Pocketbook edition: Alianza), Chinese simplex rights (Horizon), Russia (Symposium), Brazilian Portuguese rights (Perspectiva), France (L’Arche), Italy (Quodlibet), Finland (Lurra), Korea (Minumsa), Serbia (Laguna), Greece (Vakxikon)
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Selbstbezichtigung [Self-Accusation]: USA & Canada (FSG), UK & Commonwealth (Bloomsbury), Chinese simplex rights (Horizon), France (L’Arche), Italy (Quodlibet)
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Weissagung [Divination]: Chinese simplex rights (Horizon), France (L’Arche), Italy (Quodlibet)
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The Hornets
Spanish world rights (Nordica), Chinese simplex rights (Horizon), Arabic world rights (Sefsafa), France (Gallimard), Italy (Ugo Guanda), Poland (Eperons-Ostrogi)
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