The Second Sword: A Tale from the Merry Month of May, and My Day in the Other Land: A Tale of Demons - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Second Sword: A Tale from the Merry Month of May, and My Day in the Other Land: A Tale of Demons write by Peter Handke. This book was released on 2024-02-06. The Second Sword: A Tale from the Merry Month of May, and My Day in the Other Land: A Tale of Demons available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Two novellas by Peter Handke—his first works to be published since he won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature. The Second Sword and My Day in the Other Land are two novellas by the 2019 Nobel laureate Peter Handke. The first picks up the story where Handke’s last work of fiction, The Fruit Thief (described in The New York Times as “an experience of unadulterated literature”), left off. Here a man has returned to his home in the suburbs of Paris, only to soon set out again. Why? We learn, over the course of a story redolent of Handke’s harrowing A Sorrow Beyond Dreams, that he is seeking to avenge his mother, who has been unjustly denounced in the pages of a newspaper. The Second Sword is a suspenseful work of self-examination: Will the narrator’s journey end in him throwing down the gauntlet? My Day in the Other Land is the first work written by Handke after he was awarded the Nobel Prize. Evoking imagery from the Bible and classical mythology, it portrays a man who has been possessed by demons, causing him to rage endlessly against the inhabitants of his rural village. Aided by his sister, he embarks on a journey to a lake on whose opposite shore lies the “other land.” What ensues is an exorcism of sorts—and one of Handke’s most evocative and original endings. Together, The Second Sword and My Day in the Other Land are essential new entries in a body of work like no other.
Repetition
Repetition - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Repetition write by Peter Handke. This book was released on 1988-06-01. Repetition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 school, and a Slovenian - German dictionary, in which Gregor has marked certain words. The resulting investigation of the laws of language and naming becomes a transformative investigation of himself and the world around him. "Handke's eminence, displayed in a substantial oeuvre of plays, novels and poems, is reaffirmed brilliantly by [Repetition]." - Publishers Weekly
Once Again for Thucydides
Once Again for Thucydides - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Once Again for Thucydides write by Peter Handke. This book was released on 2008. Once Again for Thucydides available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "A collection of seventeen 'microepics' written by Peter Handke on trips around the world, from the Balkans to the Pyrenees, from Salzburg to the Sea of Hokkaido in Japan."--P. [4] of cover.
Quiet Places
Quiet Places - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Quiet Places write by Peter Handke. This book was released on 2023-04-04. Quiet Places available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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. Proceeding from the specificity of place (the mountains of Carinthia and Spain, the hinterlands of Paris) to specific objects (the jukebox, the boletus mushroom) to the irreducible particularity of our moods and mental impressions, these works—each a novella in its own right—offer rare insight into the affinities that can develop between a storyteller and the unlikeliest of subjects. Here, Handke posits a reevaluation of the possibilities and proper concerns of literature in a style unmistakably his own. This collection unites the three essays from The Jukebox with two new works: “Essay on a Mushroom Maniac,” the story of a friend’s descent into and ascent from the depths of obsession, and “Essay on Quiet Places,” a memoiristic tour d’horizon of bathrooms and their place in Handke’s life and work. Featuring masterful translations by Krishna Winston and Ralph Manheim, this collection encapsulates the oeuvre of one of our greatest living writers.
The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick
The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick write by Peter Handke. This book was released on 2007-12-10. The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 movie cashier is mirrored by Handke's use of direct, sometimes fractured prose that conveys "at its best a seamless blend of lyricism and horror seen in the runes of a disintegrating world" (Boston Sunday Globe).
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