Peter Handke - Novels, Plays, Poetry and Non-fiction (20 books)

PETER HANDKE (b. 1942) is an avant-garde Austrian playwright, novelist, poet, and essayist, one of the most provocative and original German-language writers in the second half of the 20th century.

He came to public notice as an anti-conventional playwright with his first important drama, "Offending the Audience" (1966) [included in KASPAR & OTHER PLAYS], in which four actors analyze the nature of theatre for an hour and then alternately insult the audience and praise its "performance," a strategy that arouses varied reactions from the crowd. Several more plays lacking conventional plot, dialogue, and characters followed. Handke's most significant dramatic piece is his first full-length play, "Kaspar" (1968), hailed by Max Frisch as "the play of the decade", depicting the foundling Kaspar Hauser as a near-speechless innocent destroyed by society's attempts to impose on him its language and its own rational values.

Handke's novels are for the most part ultra-objective, deadpan accounts of characters who are in extreme states of mind. His fiction is filled with echoes not only of Kafka, Sartre, Camus, and Robbe-Grillet but also of American gangster films and Westerns. His best-known novel, THE GOALIE'S ANXIETY AT THE PENALTY KICK (1970), is an imaginative thriller about a former football (soccer) player who commits a pointless murder and then waits for the police to take him into custody. THE LEFT-HANDED WOMAN (1976) is a dispassionate description of a young mother coping with the disorientation she feels after she has separated from her husband.

Handke has also written short stories, essays, poetry, radio dramas, and autobiographical works. The dominant theme of his writings is that ordinary language, everyday reality, and their accompanying rational order have a constraining and deadening effect on human beings and are underlain by irrationality, confusion, and even madness.

His writings about the Yugoslav Wars and subsequent NATO bombing of Yugoslavia with criticism of the Western position and his speech at the funeral of Slobodan Milošević have caused controversy, and he has been widely described as an apologist for far-right Serbian nationalism. He has been awarded the Georg Büchner Prize, the Franz Kafka Prize and the International Ibsen Award; the latter award was extremely controversial and Handke was met by protesters in Oslo and widely described by critics in Norwegian media as a fascist with ties to war criminals. In 2006 his nomination for the Heinrich Heine Prize caused a scandal, and the prize was withdrawn due to his political views.


The following books are in ePUB format unless otherwise indicated:


== FICTION ==

* Absence (FSG, 1990). Ralph Manheim, trans.
* Across (FSG, 1986). Ralph Manheim, trans.
* Afternoon of a Writer, The (FSG, 1989). Ralph Manheim, trans. -- PDF
* Crossing the Sierra de Gredos (FSG, 2007). Krishna Winston, trans.
* Don Juan: His Own Version (FSG, 2010). Krishna Winston, trans.
* Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick, The (FSG, 1972). Michael Roloff, trans.
* Left-Handed Woman, The (FSG, 1978). Ralph Manheim, trans.
* Moment of True Feeling, A (FSG, 1977). Ralph Manheim, trans.
* Moravian Night, The (FSG, 2016). Krishna Winston, trans.
* My Year in the No-Man's-Bay (FSG, 1998). Krishna Winston, trans.
* On a Dark Night I Left My Silent House (FSG, 2000). Krishna Winston, trans. -- PDF
* Repetition (FSG, 1988). Ralph Manheim, trans.
* Short Letter, Long Farewell (FSG, 1974). Ralph Manheim, trans.
* Slow Homecoming (FSG, 1985). Ralph Manheim, trans.


== PLAYS & POETRY ==

* Kaspar & Other Plays (Hill & Wang, 1989). Michael Roloff, trans.
* Nonsense and Happiness (Urizen, 1976). Michael Roloff, trans.
* Ride Across Lake Constance & Other Plays (FSG, 1976). Michael Roloff, trans.


== NON-FICTION ==

* Journey to the Rivers, A: Justice for Serbia (Viking, 1997). Scott Abbott, trans. -- PDF
* Jukebox & Other Essays on Storytelling (FSG, 1994). Ralph Manheim, trans.
* Sorrow Beyond Dreams, A (Pushkin, 2001). Ralph Manheim, trans.

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