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A Moment of True Feeling - A Novel by Peter Handke; Ralph Manheim (Translator)
Category: Fiction
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, From today on, I shall be leading a double life. The duplicity, however, lies only in Keuschnig's mind; his everyday life as t ...Show more
A Sorrow Beyond Dreams by Peter Handke
Category: Biography | Series: Pushkin Blues
A beautiful, heart-wrenching attempt to come to terms with a mother's suicide by one of Austria's greatest living writers.
A Sorrow Beyond Dreams - A Life Story by Peter Handke; Jeffrey Eugenides (Introduction by); Ralph Manheim (Translator)
Category: Biography | Series: FSG Classics Ser.
"The Sunday edition of the K rntner Volkszeitung carried the following item under 'Local News': 'In the village of A. (G. township), a housewife, aged 51, committed suicide on Friday night by taking an overdose of sleeping pills.'" So opens A Sorrow Beyond Dreams, the eminent Austrian novelist and play ...Show more
Across by HANDKE PETER
Category: Classic Fiction
Those who gravitate to the regions where fiction, poetry, imaginative flights and speculative fancy converge constitute Handke's natural audience. - Publishers Weekly Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke's novel Across tells the story of a quiet, organized classics teacher named Andreas Loser. One night, on ...Show more
Don Juan by Peter Handke
Category: Fiction
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 burs ...Show more
Moravian Night, The: A Story by Handke Peter
Category: Fiction
An odyssey through the mind and memory of a washed-up writer, from one of Europe's most provocative novelists, Nobel Prize winner Peter HandkeMysteriously summoned to a houseboat on the Morava River, a few friends, associates, and collaborators of an old writer listen as he tells a story that will last ...Show more
My Year in the No-Man's-Bay by Peter Handke
Category: Fiction
Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke's autobiographical novel My Year in No-Man's Bay is a meditation on two decades of a writer's life culminating in a solitary, sobering year of reckoning" ( Publishers Weekly ).In his most substantial novel to date, Handke tells the story of an Austrian writer - a man much ...Show more
On a Dark Night I Left My Silent House - A Novel by Peter Handke; Krishna Winston (Translator)
Category: Classic Fiction
A short, powerful new novel by one of the greatest writers in the German language. On a Dark Night I Left My Silent House is Nobel Prize-winning author Peter Handke's evocative, moving, often fantastic, novel about one man's conflict with himself and his journey toward resolution. During one night shift ...Show more
Quiet Places - Collected Essays by Peter Handke; Krishna Winston (Translator); Ralph Manheim (Translator)
Category: Biography
A career-spanning collection of essays by Nobel laureate Peter Handke, featuring two new works never before published in English Quiet Places brings together Peter Handke's forays into the border regions of life and story, upending the distinction between literature and the literary essay. Proceeding fr ...Show more
Quiet Places - Collected Essays by Peter Handke; Krishna Winston (Translator); Ralph Manheim (Translator)
Category: Classic Fiction
A career-spanning collection of essays by the Nobel laureate Peter Handke, featuring two new works never before published in English Quiet Places brings together Peter Handke's forays into the border regions of life and story, upending the distinction between literature and the literary essay. Proceedi ...Show more
Repetition by Handke, Peter
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
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 ...Show more
Short Letter Long Farewell by HANDKE PETER
Category: Classic
By Nobel Prize Winner Peter Handke Short Letter, Long Farewellis one the most inventive and exhilarating of the great Peter Handke's novels. Full of seedy noir atmospherics and boasting an air of generalized delirium, the book starts by introducing us to a nameless young German who has just arrived in ...Show more