Zwiegespräch
Spanish world rights (Alianza), Catalan rights (Alianza), France (Gallimard), Italy (Guanda), Sweden (Faethon), Iran (Farhange Javid Publishing)
»The world has never – meaning: never have I – seen such a scene anywhere.«
»In other words: life has appeared. As it could only appear in the theatre. The living word.«
Invited to the Berliner Theatertreffen, directed by Rieke Süßkow (Burgtheater, Vienna)
»Well said, old friend: We are two special fools, each in his own way.« With incomparable musicality, Peter Handke makes two speakers appear. In their dialogue, images and memories shine forth. At the centre: the grandfather, a player, and the theatre stage, a venue. The play within the play? A masterful dialogue.
»[Handke’s] prose [is] a unique school of speaking and writing. ... Thus Zwiegespräch, a finely cut arabesque, ... fits seamlessly into his oeuvre.« Tobias Lehmkuhl, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
»Many things and many people – from Victor Hugo to John Wayne – appear and disappear in this magically enigmatic text, which is primarily concerned with language and the desecration thereof.« Bernd Mellchar, Kleine Zeitung Graz
»... a feat, testimony to the inner conflict of a person caught between two temperaments ...« Lothar Struck, Glanz & Elend
»The author’s precision in his treatment of language transforms the story into images and plot that create an almost eerie pull – an individual thought converter: Individual imaginations of one’s experiences are created in the personal adaption thereof and become a lasting moment of self-experience.« Gerd Schumann, junge Welt
»[There are] highlights in the dialogue, these seemingly freehand metaphors, delivered in the floating Handke sound, a rhythm that mocks any grounding.« Ö1
»[Handke’s] prose [is] a unique school of speaking and writing. ... Thus Zwiegespräch, a finely cut arabesque, ... fits seamlessly into his...
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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...
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)
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 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 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)
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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)
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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)
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)
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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...
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)
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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,...
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)
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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...
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)
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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...
USA & Canada (FSG), UK & Commonwealth (Bloomsbury), France (L’Arche), Italy (Quodlibet), Korea (io-edition)
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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...
Chinese simplex rights (Horizon), France (Christian Bourgois), Serbia (Laguna; audiobook rights: Voxa), Greece (Vakxikon)
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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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