My Year In No Man's Bay
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He explores the world and describes his many severed relationships, from his tenuous contact with his son, to a failed marriage to »the Catalan,« to a doomed love affair with a former Miss Yugoslavia. As the writer sifts through his memories, he is also under pressure to...
In his most substaintial novel to date, Handke tells the story of an Austrian writer – a man much like Handke himself – who undergoes a »metamorphosis« from self-assured artist into passive »observer and chronicler.«
He explores the world and describes his many severed relationships, from his tenuous contact with his son, to a failed marriage to »the Catalan,« to a doomed love affair with a former Miss Yugoslavia. As the writer sifts through his memories, he is also under pressure to complete his next novel, but he cannot decide how to come to terms with both the complexity of the world and the inability of his novel to reflect it. (book description from the English edition by FSG)
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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 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....
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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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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...
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Days and Works
Italy (Guanda)
Essay on the Mushroom Hunter
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The Great Fall
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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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The Cuckoos of Velika Hoca
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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...
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Crossing the Sierra de Gredos
It is a woman whose adventures are the subject of this book. She – the...
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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...
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Summer Postscript to a Winter Journey
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Essay on the Successful Day
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Essay on the Jukebox
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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The Weight of the World
»A combination of professional notebook and personal diary that records – both in short, informal jottings and through more formal, extended meditations – the details of Handke's daily life in...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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The Hornets
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