After dining out with her husband to celebrate his return from a business trip, Marianne realizes that he will someday leave her and that she must learn to fend for herself and her young son now

The Left-Handed Woman

Literature & Fiction

peter-handke

Contemporary

ABACUS +

The time is an unspecified modernity, the place possibly Europe. Absence follows four nameless people -- the old man, the woman, the soldier, and the gambler -- as they journey to a desolate wasteland beyond the limits of an unnamed city.

Absence

Ralph Manheim

Literary

Farrar. Straus and Giroux

Dust jacket art by Fred Marcellino. Translated by Ralph Manheim. His sixth and most celebrated book.

A Moment of True Feeling

History & Criticism

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

A collection of three superb essays from a renowned prose stylist attempts to explore how language can work its magic on us, as the author meditates on subjects ranging from his Austrian boyhood to the music of the Beatles.

The Jukebox & Other Essays on Storytelling

Essays & Correspondence

This volume of Handke's plays includes two full-length and four shorter plays by the young Austrian playwright.  The first of the full-length plays, 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, Handke's most recent full-length play, which is also in this volume.  In some ways more conventional than many of Handke's plays, They Are Dying Out presents one of his most fascinating protagonists, Quitt, a businessman who first induces a group of colleagues to set up a monopoly and then torpedoes the scheme. The four short plays that round out the book--Prophecy, Calling for Help, Quodlibet, and My Foot My Tutor--were written between 1966 and 1969, before The Ride Across Lake Constance (1971), and show Handke moving from the experimental mode of his early work toward the richness and complexity that have marked him as the most important dramatist since Becket; they bear witness to the truth of Richard Gilman's observation that "in Handke's theater, language, exposed, assaulted, wrestled with, driven to limits, and pursued still further, begins to take on, like the color returning to the cheeks of a nearly hanged man, the signs of a strange and unexpected resurrection."

Ride Across Lake Constance and Other Plays

Dramas & Plays

Noonday Press

The question is whether Handke is Existentialist or Post Modern. This collection includes three of the best examples of mid-Twentieth Century European experimental fiction: The Goalie's Anxiety At The Penalty Kick; Short Letter, Long Farewell; and A Sorrow Beyond Dreams.

Three by Peter Handke

Poetry

AVON.

Kaspar (Methuen Modern Plays)

Methuen Drama

Left-Handed Woman

METHUEN

The text of this family drama focuses on the relationship between two brothers and their sister. The central theme concerns a dispute over family property, but in a wider context the play contrasts traditional village life with the modern city and the isolated lives of manual workers.

The Long Way Round (Methuen Modern Plays)

The time is an unspecified modernity, the place possibly Europe. Absence follows four nameless people -- the old man, the woman, the soldier, and the gambler -- as they journey to a desolate wasteland beyond the limits of an unnamed city."A remarkably abstract book even for the very abstract Handke ...Slippery but engrossing work, silkily translated." - Kirkus Reviews

Methuen Publishing, Ltd.

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The Left-Handed Woman

Absence

A Moment of True Feeling

The Jukebox & Other Essays on Storytelling

Ride Across Lake Constance and Other Plays

Three by Peter Handke

Kaspar (Methuen Modern Plays)

Left-Handed Woman

The Long Way Round (Methuen Modern Plays)

Absence