Once Again for Thucydides is a collection of seventeen micro-epics written on trips around the world. In each brief journal entry, Handke concentrates on small things he observes, trying to capture their essence, their simple, unadorned validity. What results is a work or remarkable precision, in which he uncovers the general appearance of random objects and discovers their inner working and mystery.
Once Again for Thucydides is a collection of seventeen micro-epics written on trips around the world. In each brief journal entry, Handke concentrates...
A MODERN MASTER'S WRY AND ENTERTAINING TAKE ON HISTORY'S BEST-KNOWN LOVER
In Don Juan, Peter Handke offers his take on the famous seducer. Don Juan's story--"his own version"--is filtered through the consciousness of an anonymous narrator, a failed innkeeper and chef, into whose solitude Don Juan bursts one day. On each day of the week that follows, Don Juan describes the adventures he experienced on that same day a week earlier. The adventures are erotic, but Handke's Don Juan is more pursued than pursuer. What makes his accounts riveting are the...
A MODERN MASTER'S WRY AND ENTERTAINING TAKE ON HISTORY'S BEST-KNOWN LOVER
"Unter der Rubrik VERMISCHTES stand in der Sonntagsausgabe der Krntner "Volkszeitung" folgendes: "In der Nacht zum Samstag verbte eine 51jhrige Hausfrau aus A. (Gemeinde G.) Selbstmord durch Einnehmen einer berdosis von Schlaftabletten." Es ist inzwischen fast sieben Wochen her, seit meine Mutter tot ist, und ich mchte mich an die Arbeit machen, bevor das Bedrfnis, ber sie zu schreiben, das bei der Beerdigung so stark war, sich in die stumpfsinnige Sprachlosigkeit zurckverwandelt, mit der ich auf die Nachricht von dem Selbstmord reagierte."
"Unter der Rubrik VERMISCHTES stand in der Sonntagsausgabe der Krntner "Volkszeitung" folgendes: "In der Nacht zum Samstag verbte eine 51jhrige Hausfr...
In der Sierra de Gredos erstreckt sich von Ost nach West eine bis in den Frühling hinein verschneite, fast zweihundert Gratkilometer lange Gipfelflur. Dorthin macht sich die Bankfrau, von deren Abenteuern dieser Roman handelt, aus einer nordwestlichen Flußhafenstadt auf den Weg. Sie will diese Bergkette durchqueren und dort in dem Manchadorf den Autor treffen, mit dem sie einen klassischen Lieferantenvertrag abgeschlossen hat: Sie, die mächtige Strippenzieherin mit den verschiedenen Namen, die nach einem tödlichen Verkehrsunfall der Eltern bei ihren Großeltern auf dem Dorf aufwuchs, viel...
In der Sierra de Gredos erstreckt sich von Ost nach West eine bis in den Frühling hinein verschneite, fast zweihundert Gratkilometer lange Gipfelflur...
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE 'Portrays the breakdown of a murderer in ways that recall Camus' The Stranger' The New York Times Joseph Bloch, a once-famous goalkeeper turned construction worker, commits a random murder without thought or regret. As he wanders the streets, from hotel to bar, cinema to tram stop, experiencing strange and violent encounters on the way, he finds himself, and everything around him, disintegrating. Told in spare and icy prose, Peter Handke's masterpiece of alienation takes apart our ideas of humanity and reality itself. 'A Kafkaesque crime...
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE 'Portrays the breakdown of a murderer in ways that recall Camus' The Stranger' The New York Times Josep...
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE 'Repetition made a great and, as I have since learned, lasting impression on me' W. G. Sebald Filip Kobal, an Austrian teenager, is on the trail of his missing older brother Gregor, who he never knew. All he has is two of Gregor's books: a school copy book, and a dictionary in which certain words have been marked. As he enters Slovenia on his journey, Filip discovers something else entirely: the transformative power of language to describe the world, and the unnerving joy of being an outsider in a strange land. 'One of the most moving...
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE 'Repetition made a great and, as I have since learned, lasting impression on me' W. G. Sebald Filip Kob...
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE 'One of Europe's great writers' Karl Ove Knausgaard One evening Marianne, a suburban housewife living in an identikit bungalow, is struck by the realization that her husband will leave her. Whether at that moment, or in years to come, she will be deserted. So she sends him away, knowing she must fend for herself and her young son. As she adjusts to her disorienting new life alone, what she thought was fear slowly starts to feel like freedom. 'Knifelike clarity of evocation ... Handke is a kind of nature poet, a romantic whose exacerbated...
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE 'One of Europe's great writers' Karl Ove Knausgaard One evening Marianne, a suburban housewife living i...