« Ils étaient partis en chahutant dans l'escalier. […] J'avais appris qu'ils faisaient encore les pitres dans la voiture, au moment où le camion les avait percutés. Je m'étais dit qu'ils étaient...
In The Jukebox and Other Essays on Storytelling, 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...
Set in 1960, this novel 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...
Peter Handke has been acclaimed as "unmistakably one of the best writers we have in that self-discovering tendency we call post-modernism" (Malcolm Bradbury, New York Times Book Review). In his new novel. Handke tells the story of an Austrian...
Kaspar, Peter Handke's first full-length dramahailed in Europe as "the play of the decade" and compared in importance to Waiting for Godot is the story of an autistic adolescent who finds himself at a complete existential...
On the outskirts of a northwestern European riverport city lives a powerful woman banker, a public figure admired and hated in equal measure, who has decided to turn from the worlds of high finance and modern life to embark on a quest. Having...