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Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke offers a wry and entertaining take on history's most famous seducer as he takes a respite from his stressful existenceDon Juan's story-"e;his own version"e;-is filtered through the consciousness of an anonym...

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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; ...

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Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke's autobiographical novel My Year in No-Man's Bay is "e;a meditation on two decades of a writer's life culminating in a solitary, sobering year of reckoning"e; (Publishers Weekly).In his most substantial nove...

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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, "e;From today on, I shall be leading a double life."e; The dup...

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In Nobel Prize-winning author Peter Handke's The Left-Handed Woman, a young woman faces loneliness and alienation on a journey to find her own life outside of being a wife and mother.One evening, when Marianne and her husband, Bruno, are dining ou...

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Nobel Prize winner 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 "e;Essay on Tiredness,"e; Handke...

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Set in 1960, Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke's Repetition tells of Filib Kobal's journey from his home in Carinthia to Slovenia on the trail of his missing brother, Gregor. He is armed only with two of Gregor's books: a copy book from agricultural...

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"e;Those who gravitate to the regions where fiction, poetry, imaginative flights and speculative fancy converge constitute Handke's natural audience."e; - Publishers WeeklyNobel Prize winner Peter Handke's novel Across tells the story of a...

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Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke's novel Short Letter, Long Farewell tells the story of a young Austrian--evidently modeled on the author--on a harrowing month's journey across the United StatesThe book opens in Providence, where a letter awaits th...

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In this visionary novel, Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke offers descriptions of objects, relationships, and events that teach readers a renewed way of seeing; he creates a wealth of images to replace those lost to convention and conformity. On the...

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In this haunting suite of three fictions, Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke cements his reputation as one of the most talented writers of the Twentieth CenturyIn "e;The Long Way Around"e;, a European scientist in Alaska finds himself in isol...

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A "e;challenging and rewarding novel"e;* from Nobel Prize-winning author Peter Handke.The time is an unspecified modernity, the place possibly Europe. Absence follows four nameless people -- the old man, the woman, the soldier, and the gam...

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A collection of six plays by Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke, spanning the early years of the Austrian playwright's careerThe first full-length play The Ride Across Lake Constance, is one of Handke's best-known works. It deals directly with one of...

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Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke's first full-length drama, hailed in Europe as "e;the play of the decade"e; and compared in importance to Waiting for GodotKaspar is the story of an autistic adolescent who finds himself at a complete existe...

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On a Dark Night I Left My Silent House is Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke's evocative, moving, often fantastic, short novel about one man's conflict with himself and his journey toward resolution. During one night shift, an unnamed, middle-aged ph...

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"My mother has been dead for almost seven weeks: I had better go to work before the need to write about her, which I felt so strongly at her funeral, dies away and I fall back into the dull speechlessness with which I reacted to the news of her su...

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Described as an answer to or at least an echo of Samuel Beckett's "Krapp's Last Tape", Austrian playwright and novelist Peter Handke's "Till Day You Do Part Or A Question of Light" is a monologue delivered by the 'she' in Becke...

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1973 veröffentlicht der 31jährige Peter Handke, der mit seinen Theaterstücken und den Büchern Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter und Wunschloses Unglück für großes Aufsehen gesorgt hatte, in der Süddeutschen Zeitung eine »Einladung, Hermann Lenz...

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Der eine erinnert sich noch immer an jenen Theaterbesuch als Schulkind: nicht an das Stück, dafür an das Dekor, die Kulisse. Ein Urbild, das er auf seinen Wanderungen durch die Nachbarorte wiedererkennt, in einer Scheune, dem Haus auf dem Friedhof...

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