Peter Handke, Author Collier Books $8.95 (278p) ISBN 978-0-02-051530-2
In three interrelated fictions, the author of Repetition describes a sojourn in Alaska, Cezanne's mountain in Provence and a complicated father-daughter relationship. PW found the ``sombre, enigmatic'' work has reflective power but lacks narrative...
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Peter Handke, Author Collier Books $8.95 (246p) ISBN 978-0-02-020762-7
``Handke's eminence, displayed in a substantial oeuvre of plays, novels and poems, is reaffirmed brilliantly by his latest work,'' praised PW . In 1960, an alienated, 20-year-old, nascent Austrian writer of Slovenian descent, embarks on a quest to...
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Peter Handke, trans. from the German by Krishna Winston. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27 (192p) ISBN 978-0-374-60146-1
These two well-crafted if surly novellas from Nobel winner Handke (The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick) deal with isolation and the outsider’s attempts to reconcile himself with society. The Second Sword follows an unnamed narrator as he...
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Peter Handke, Author, Ralph Manheim, Translator Farrar Straus Giroux $18.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-374-24934-2
Handke's eminence, displayed in a substantial oeuvre of plays, novels and poems, is reaffirmed brilliantly by his latest work. In 1960, Filip Kobal, an alienated, 20-year-old, nascent Austrian writer of Slovenian descent, embarks on a quest to the...
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Peter Handke, Author, Ralph Manheim, Translator Farrar Straus Giroux $14.95 (144p) ISBN 978-0-374-10054-4
One recognizes as pure Handke the scene, atmosphere, voice and tensions of this tale: the minutely observed streets of Salzburg and the countryside beyond; the still, murky air; the brooding, meditative voice; the sense of a violent storm gathering...
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Peter Handke, Author, Ralph Manheim, Translator Farrar Straus Giroux $14.95 (96p) ISBN 978-0-374-10207-4
This deceptively simple, yet highly challenging and original novella reaffirms Handke's preeminence on the international literary scene. One December afternoon in an unidentified German city, the nameless narrator, a writer, takes a walk and...
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Peter Handke, Author, Ralph Manheim, Translator Farrar Straus Giroux $18.95 (118p) ISBN 978-0-374-10022-3
German author Handke ( Afternoon of a Writer ) enlarges the recurrent metaphysical preoccupations of his prolific output in this latest challenging and rewarding novel. The story's four nameless protagonists meander through a surreally disconnected...
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Peter Handke, Author, Ralph Manheim, Translator Collier Books $6.95 (137p) ISBN 978-0-02-051540-1
Narrator Andreas Loser has knocked down a stranger in the street, taken a leave of absence from his post as teacher of ancient languages and left his family. PW declared that ""those who gravitate to the regions wherefiction, poetry, imaginative...
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Peter Handke, Author, Tess Lewis, Translator New Directions Publishing Corporation $22.95 (90p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1388-2
Like his recent novel, My Year in the No-Man's-Bay, this series of intimately described observations certainly doesn't qualify as fiction by most standards of measure. In neither work is Handke very concerned with character or plot in the usual...
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Peter Handke, Author, Krishna Winston, Translator , trans. from the German by Krishna Winston. Farrar, Straus & Giroux $26 (472p) ISBN 978-0-374-28154-0
In the atmospheric latest from Handke (The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick
, etc.), a nameless female banker in a nameless northern European city decides for obscure reasons to repeat a journey to Spain she took years before, and to...
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Peter Handke, Author, Krishna Winston, Translator , trans. from the German by Krishna Winston. Farrar, Straus & Giroux $22 (101p) ISBN 978-0-374-14231-5
Don Juan catapults over a garden wall and into the life of an anonymous narrator in this short, frustrating novel. Over the course of a week, the narrator, a lonely French innkeeper, listens to Don Juan relate the adventures that culminate with his...
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Peter Handke, Author, Krishna Winston, Translator Farrar Straus Giroux $30 (356p) ISBN 978-0-374-21755-6
""Almost fifty-six now, I still do not know myself,"" explains the brooding narrator of Austrian novelist/essayist Handke's (The Jukebox and Other Essays on Storytelling) sinuously beautiful latest novel, a meditation on two decades of a writer's...
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Peter Handke, Author, Krishna Winston, Translator Farrar Straus Giroux $23 (160p) ISBN 978-0-374-17547-4
Handke's stringent style of postmodern storytelling remains uncompromisingly austere in his latest novel, in which an unnamed protagonist goes on a directionless odyssey. Alienated from his wife and children, a middle-aged pharmacist with a...
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Peter Handke, trans. from the German by Krishna Winston. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26 (320p) ISBN 978-0-374-21255-1
The Moravian Night is the name of a boat moored on the Morava River, where a gathering takes place in which a writer tells friends the story of a journey he once took through Europe. The book’s journey appears to begin in Kosovo. The somewhat...
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Peter Handke, Author, Krishna Winston, Translator, Ralph Manheim, Translator Farrar Straus Giroux $21 (167p) ISBN 978-0-374-18054-6
In Handke's metafictional title piece--a parable on self-evasion and writer's block--a traveler in Spain makes elaborate preparations to begin a long-planned essay about the jukebox, symbol of American pop culture. The transparent luminosity of the...
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Peter Handke, Author, Scott Abbott, Translator Viking Books $17.95 (96p) ISBN 978-0-670-87341-8
Handke argues that the Western news media have unfairly portrayed the Serbs as brutal aggressors in the Yugoslav war while presenting Croats as sympathetic victims. The eminent German novelist/ playwright/essayist charges that the Croats started the
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Peter Handke, trans. from the German by Krishna Winston. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $28 (336p) ISBN 978-0-374-90650-4
Nobel laureate Handke (The Moravian Night) delivers a glacially slow but erudite journey through the northern French countryside. It begins on an August day when the narrator, an unnamed older gentleman, sets out from Paris to follow a young woman...
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Peter Handke, trans. from the German by Krishna Winston and Ralph Manheim. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $29 (304p) ISBN 978-0-374-12559-2
The persistence of memory, a sense of alienation from oneself, and self-consciousness about one’s writing process all come to the fore in these erudite essays from Nobel Prize winner Handke (The Moravian Night). In “Essay on Tiredness,” he lays out...
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