English world rights (New Directions), Spanish world rights (Tresmolins), France (Christian Bourgois), Slovenia (Hiša poezije), Serbia (Prometej)
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»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 of Hokkaido in Japan.
In each journal, Handke concentrates on small things he observes, trying to capture their essence, their ›simple, unadorned validity.‹ What results is a work of remarkable precision, in which he uncovers the general appearance of random objects – an ash...
»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 of Hokkaido in Japan.
In each journal, Handke concentrates on small things he observes, trying to capture their essence, their ›simple, unadorned validity.‹ What results is a work of remarkable precision, in which he uncovers the general appearance of random objects – an ash tree, a shoeshine man, hats in a crowd, a boat loading on a pier – and discovers their inner workings and mystery. Always, his writing hints at the unknown. Describing the snow melting in a garden or falling during a train ride through inland Japan, the glowworms illuminating the plains in Friuli, the tidal waters flowing and receding off the Atlantic coast of Spain, these amazing little ›epics‹ reveal a narrator obsessed with the wonders of detail and marveling, as are we, at the scope and variety of the natural world.« (book description from the English edition by New Directions)
»Handke delights in sublime detail. […] these vignettes have the power of poetry.« The New York Times
»Handke delights in sublime detail. […] these vignettes have the power of poetry.« The New York Times
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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...
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Snows of Yesteryear, Snows of Tomorrow
France (Gallimard), Italy (Medhelan), Sweden (Faethon), Bulgaria (Black Flamingo), Turkey (Everest), Greece (Vakxikon)
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...
English world rights (FSG), Spanish world rights and Catalan (Alianza), France (Gallimard), Italy (Guanda), Sweden (Faethon), Turkey (Sia Kitap), Greece (Hestia)
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)
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...
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...
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
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...
Side Entrance or Main Entrance?
Essay on the Mushroom Hunter
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
In their letters that stretched a period of over 35 years, Peter Handke and Siegfried...
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)
The Great Fall
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; audiobook rights: Voxa), Greece (Hestia), Macedonia (Ars Lamina), Georgia (Intelekti)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Italy (Garzanti)
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)
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...
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
France (Différence), Sweden (Karneval), Serbia (Prometej)
The Moravian Night
Time: one night, from late evening to blue-streaked dawn.
Dramatis ...
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; audiobook rights: Voxa), Turkey (Sia Kitap), Greece (Koukkida), Georgia (Intelekti)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Italy (Garzanti), Finland (Lurra)
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)
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...
Spanish world rights (Tresmolins), Sweden (Karneval), Serbia (Prometej)
Don Juan
More precisely it is the story told by Don Juan himself, during seven days in a...
English world rights (FSG), Spanish world rights (Pocketbook edition: Alianza), Brazilian Portuguese rights (Estação Liberdade), Portuguese rights (Relogio d'Agua), Arabic world rights (Mamdouh Adwan), Russia (AST), Japan (Sanshusha), Czech Republic (Prostor), Croatia (Fraktura), Serbia (Clio), Armenia (Antares)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Galician world rights (Sotelo Blanco), France (Gallimard), Italy (Garzanti), Denmark (Gyldendal), Sweden (Bonniers), Finland (Lurra), Korea (Vega Books), Poland (Czytelnik), Bulgaria (Riva), Romania (Paralela 45), Slovenia (Cankarjeva Zalozba), Turkey (Can), Greece (Exandas), Macedonia (Magor)
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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Essay on the Successful Day
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Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Italy (Garzanti)
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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Short Letter, Long Farewell
In the story Short Letter, Long Farewell a young Austrian travels across the USA, fleeing while at the same time seeking his wife Judith. He meets Claire, an old flame; participates in...
USA & Canada (FSG), UK & Commonwealth (Methuen), Spanish world rights (Pocketbook edition: Alianza); Latin America (Trade edition: Edhasa), Chinese simplex rights (Horizon), Russia (AST), Brazilian Portuguese rights (Estação Liberdade), Portuguese rights (Relogio d’Agua), Arabic world rights (Al-Kamel), France (Gallimard), Sweden (Bonniers), Norway (Gyldendal Norsk), Iceland (Ugla), Korea (Munhakdongne), Japan (Hosei UP), Poland (Eperons-Ostrogi), Slovakia (Tatran), Romania (ART), Lithuania (Alma Littera), Serbia (Laguna), Turkey (SIA Kitap), Greece (Agra), Macedonia (Ars Lamina), Albania (Aleph Klub), Georgia (Intelekti), Armenia (Antares)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Italy (Feltrinelli), Netherlands (Arbeiderspers), Denmark (Gyldendal), Czech Republic (Odeon), Hungary (Europa), Bulgaria (Narodna Kultura), Slovenia (Drava)
I Am an Inhabitant of the Ivory Tower
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...
Chinese simplex rights (Horizon), France (Christian Bourgois), Japan (Daisan Shobo), Poland (Eperons-Ostrogi)
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 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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