Bøger af Peter Handke

The latest work by Peter Handke chronicles a day in life of an aging actor as he makes his way on foot from the outskirts of a great metropolis into its center.

Ein Buch über das Reisen in einer Zeit ohne festen Wohnsitz: Mithilfe von tagebuchartigen Notizen, die sich Handke während seiner Nomaden-Zeit zwischen November 1987 und Juli 1990 machte, lässt er sein Treiben durch Jugoslawien, Griechenland, Ägypten, durch ganz Europa bis nach Japan und mehrfach in den slowenischen Karst wiederaufleben. Dabei sind es nicht nur die physischen Reisen, sondern auch die mentalen, an denen Handke den Leser teilhaben lässt. Peter Handke, geboren 1942 in Kärnten, ist ein österreichischer Schriftsteller und Regisseur. Er studierte Jura in Graz, brach das Studium jedoch kurz vor dem Abschluss ab. 1966 erschien sein erster Roman. Es folgten viele weitere Romane, Erzählungen sowie Theaterstücke. 2019 wurde ihm der Literaturnobelpreis verliehen.

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 like Handke himself--who undergoes a "metamorphosis" from self-assured artist into passive "observer and chronicler." He explores the world and describes his many severed relationships, from his tenuous contact with his son, to a failed marriage to "the Catalan," to a doomed love affair with a former Miss Yugoslavia. As the writer sifts through his memories, he is also under pressure to complete his next novel, but he cannot decide how to come to terms with both the complexity of the world and the inability of his novel to reflect it.

A La gran caiguda, Peter Handke ens porta a seguir a un personatge durant les seves aventures per la ciutat. El protagonista, un actor experimentat, desperta a casa d'una dona desconeguda. No recorda com o per quin motiu ha arribat allà. Començará a caminar sense rumb per la ciutat a l'espera del rodatge que comença el dia següent, i durant el seu camí es trobará a tot un conjunt de personatges a partir dels quals en Peter Handke parla de temes com la memória, la identitat i el passar del temps.Peter Handke és un escriptor austríac nascut a Griffen a 1942. Amb una extensa obra que inclou novel·les, assaig, poesia, teatre i cine, va guanyar el Premi Nobel de Literatura a 2019. És autor de vint-i-sis novel·les, quinze obres de teatre, vintiset llibres d'assaig i alguns guions de cine, on ha col·laborat amb directors de cine com Wim Winders.

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 "e;portrays the...breakdown of a murderer in ways that recall Camus's The Stranger"e; (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 movie cashier is mirrored by Handke's use of direct, sometimes fractured prose that conveys "e;at its best a seamless blend of lyricism and horror seen in the runes of a disintegrating world"e; (Boston Sunday Globe).

The author, a giant of Austrian literature, has produced decades of fiction, poetry, and drama. In this work, he returns to the land of his birth, the Austrian province of Carinthia. There on the Jaunfeld, the plain at the center of Austria's Slovenian settlement, the dead and the living of a family meet and talk.

A monologue delivered by the female character in Samuel Beckett's play Krapp's Last Tape.

This volume contains 22 stories and novellas, many appearing in English for the first time. Among the authors represented are Peter Handke, Alfred Andersch, Stefan Andres, Jurgen Becker, Ulla Merkewicz, Elisabeth Borchers, Gisela Elsner and Max von der Grun.