Peter Handke

A young woman faces loneliness and alienation on a journey to find her own life outside of being a wife and mother in Nobel Prize-winning author Peter Handke's 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 will leave her. Whether at that moment, or in years to come, she will be...

Peter Handke offers three intimate, eloquent meditations that map a self-reflexive journey from Alaska to the Austria of his childhood, while illuminating the act of writing itself. In his "Essay on Tiredness," Handke transforms an everyday experience-often precipitated by boredom-into a fascinating exploration of the world of slow motion, differentiating degrees of fatigue, the types of weariness, its rejuvenating effects, as well as its erotic,...

Logo de início, Peter Handke anuncia o tom: "Está ­ficando sério de novo!", diz o protagonista, alter ego bem pouco dissimulado e crítico mordaz do próprio escritor. Nesse jogo de duplo espelho em que o ensejo é saber o quanto há da persona Handke em cada trecho, fato é que temos aqui o último - embora com o Prêmio Nobel de 2019 nunca se sabe ao certo - ensaio autorretratado da série de cinco. O confronto com a escrita percorre e traspassa...

In this haunting suite of three fictions, Peter Handke, cements his reputation as one of the most talented writers of the Twentieth-Century. In "The Long Way Around", a European scientist in Alaska finds himself in isolated "places and spaces" that are disturbed when he relocates to California, a disruption that ultimately drives him back home. "The Lesson of Mont Sainte-Victoire" follows an autobiographical narrator to Provence, to the mountain...

“Kaspar” is the story of an autistic adolescent who finds himself at a complete existential loss on the stage, with but a single sentence to call his own. Drilled by prompters who use terrifyingly funny logical and a logical language-sequences, Kaspar learns to speak "normally" and eventually becomes creative-"doing his own thing" with words; for this he is destroyed. In “Offending the Audience and Self-Accusation”, one-character "speak-ins,"...

"Quem reflete sobre o dia, reflete sobre o Senhor." Em Ensaio sobre o dia exitoso, de 1991, Handke lida com o problema da vida cotidiana de uma forma existencial e filosófica. O Ensaio não é um manual de instruções para uma vida melhor, mas uma forma de autoquestionamento e reflexão sobre a própria prática de vida e a ideia do que seria um dia "de êxito". Nesta obra também é possível encontrar aquilo pelo qual recebeu o Prêmio Nobel...

The first full-length play The Ride Across Lake Constance, is one of Handke's best-known works. It deals directly with one of Handke's favorite themes: the realities of theater itself, independent of the offstage world, and the way language (dialogue) and objects (props) operate in the skewed world of the stage. Therein it anticipates They Are Dying Out, the second full-length play in this volume. In some ways more conventional than many of Handke's...

The first of Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke's novels to be published in English, 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 Times). The self-destruction of a soccer goalie turned construction worker who wanders aimlessly around a stifling Austrian border town after pursuing and then murdering, almost unthinkingly, a female...

Eis um trabalho em que Handke foge completamente de qualquer cronologia linear e de processos de narrativa convencionais, compondo sucessivamente, ensaio após ensaio, uma metafísica da escrita que deságua na muito perspicaz leitura de uma realidade que se torna irreal de tão premeditadamente elaborada. Toda a composição da jukebox enquanto falso protagonista serve como biombo para destrinchar a poética handkeana do cotidiano. O encontro entre...

A romantic fantasy about an angel who wishes he were mortal and is willing to fall from the sky if it means a chance to fall in love. Set in modern day Berlin, the film follows angel Damiel's path from heavenly flight to earthly delight in a manner that's comical, touching and entertaining.