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More precisely it is the story told by Don Juan himself, during seven days in a Maigarten in Port-Royal-des-Champs, and only once in a while, a commentary of the one who is being told the adventures of the seven past days pops up.
Peter Handke tells nothing less but »the definitive and the solely true story of Don Juan«
More precisely it is the story told by Don Juan himself, during seven days in a Maigarten in Port-Royal-des-Champs, and only once in a while, a commentary of the one who is being told the adventures of the seven past days pops up.
»Since [...] the deepest aspiration of this Don Juan seems to be the urge to avoid the clichés of seduction.A postheroic, postemancipative Don Juan, so to say, who desires the women in plural, though conscious of not wanting to hurt the singular. While Don Juan´s women, amazones and brides at the same time, finally assail the narrator´s house, this isn´t about desire of revenge, but moreso a final image of Peter Handke´s love utopy, told by himself.« Ina Hartwig, FR
»This is Handke-land. Such as no other contemporary author may apprehend and write about, a tableau, loosened in its motives and details, modern and in a strikingly precise romantism.« NZZ
»The seductor Don Juan has triumphed in the narrative. It is Peter Handkes triumph.« Welt am Sonntag
»[...]a chef d´oeuvre full of poetry« Focus
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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...
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
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)
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)
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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)
Essay on the Jukebox
USA (FSG), Spanish world rights (Alianza), Chinese simplex rights (Horizon), Russia (Jaromir Hladik Press), Brazilian Portuguese rights (Estaçao Liberdade), Arabic world rights (Sefsafa), France (Gallimard), Netherlands (Koppernik), Denmark (Batzer), Sweden (Faethon), Norway (Gyldendal Norsk), Finland (Lurra), Poland (Eperons Ostrogi), Czech Republic (Prostor), 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)
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)
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 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)
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)
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)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Catalan rights (Institut del Teatre), Netherlands (Bruna), Czech Republic (Artur), Israel (Or Am)
Selbstbezichtigung [Self-Accusation]: USA & Canada (FSG), UK & Commonwealth (Bloomsbury), Chinese simplex rights (Horizon), France (L’Arche), Italy (Quodlibet)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Catalan rights (Institut del Teatre), Netherlands (Bruna)
Weissagung [Divination]: Chinese simplex rights (Horizon), France (L’Arche), Italy (Quodlibet)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Catalan rights (Institut del Teatre), Netherlands (Bruna)
