Peter Handke

Fortælleren befinder sig i den span­ske by Burgos, hvor han har planer om at tage en rutebil til Soria oppe i bjergene for at skrive om jukeboksen, ligesom han allerede annoncerede i slutningen af Forsøg over trætheden. Men hurtigt viser det sig at dette forsøg tager læseren – og den skrivende – et helt andet sted hen. Forventningen om den proklamerede tekst bliver springbrættet for en undersøgelse af skriftens tilstand af evig begyndelse – og for vores forfatterhovedperson: evig udsættelse. Vi følger forfatteren i hans søgen efter jukeboksen og hans på en gang paradoksalt adspredte og totalt fokuserede re­gi­strering af alt han falder over på sin vej gennem det øde spanske landskab. Vejen lyser, farverne og formerne tager til som varmebølger i luften og ændrer karakter igen lige så snart fortælleren fornemmer dem på huden og i sproget, der umærkeligt mimer landskabets og erindringsnuets nostalgiske bevidsthed – alt imens spørgsmålet om jukeboksen fortoner sig. Faktisk når Handkes forfatter aldrig rigtig at begynde på den tekst vi som læsere nu sidder og læser, og fortællingen fortætter sig i stedet som en lang drømmende meditation over en forfatters skrivekrise. Peter Handke, f. 1942, østrigsk forfatter, der i 2019 blev tildelt Nobelprisen i litteratur »for et indflydelses­rigt forfatterskab der med stor sprog-kunst har udforsket periferien og menneskenes konkrete erfaringer«.

Peter Handke - Nobelin kirjallisuuspalkinto 2019Kertomuksen henkilö on demoniensa riivaama yksilö, joka kokee ulkopuolisuutta maailmassa. Hän kylvää tuskaansa ympäristön ylle, kunnes ymmärtää katsoa itseensä. Alkaa matka toiseen maahan, jossa särkynyt mieli voi kokea jotakin aivan uutta - mielenrauhaa. Peter Handke on luonut ihmisenä olemisen katekismuksen - ripin sielun pimeydestä ja kirkastumisesta.

Den tidligere målmand og nu mon­tør Josef Bloch er uden varsel og uden nogen grund blevet fyret: ikke noget opsigelsesbrev, ikke et ord, men noget tyder på at han er fyret, og ligesom en anden af litteraturhistoriens berømte og lige så magtesløse skikkelser, Josef K. i Kafkas roman Processen, tolker nu også Josef B. dette noget som et tegn på at han er fordømt – og nu hænger han i det tomme rum. Og alt hvad han foretager sig virker formålsløst. Bloch befinder sig i et eksistentielt tomrum, lige­som en målmand når der er dømt straffe­spark, angsten i det øjeblik dommerens fløj­te har lydt og straffe­sparkskytten gør sig klar, men endnu ikke har skudt. Det er som en afgrund af tid eller snarere tidløshed, et tomrum hvor alt kan ske, men ingenting sker, og målmanden på paradoksal vis er fuldkommen magtesløs. Med efterord af Madame Nielsen.» Han er i mine øjne en af Europas store for­­fattere. Han skriver bøger som forsøger at gå ud ad veje fortællinger sædvanligvis ikke går ud ad; at bevæge sig ud i afkroge af virkeligheden.« Karl Ove Knausgård Peter Handke blev tildelt Nobelprisen 2019 med følgende begrundelse: “For et indflydelsesrigt forfatterskab der med stor sprogkunst har udforsket periferien og menneskets konkrete erfaringer.”

Peter Handke har kallat sin nya roman Frukttjuven för ”Det Sista eposet”. Ett stick av ett bi blir det tecken som föranleder uppbrottet och som gör att författaren påbörjar sin berättelse. Här skildras en resa som på omvägar leder från Ingenmansbukten till det inre av landet, där frukttjuven kanske är dömd att stanna, men också om de oerhörda och hittills aldrig skådade farorna på vägen dit.

Den østerrikske forfatteren Peter Handke (f. 1942) mottok i 2019 Nobelprisen i litteratur, og "Det andre sverdet" er den første utgivelsen fra Handkes hånd etter tildelingen. Handke er en av Europas mest sentrale og toneangivende samtidsforfattere, og har hatt et dedikert lesende publikum siden debuten i 1966. Pelikanen har tidligere gitt ut skuespillet Spørrespillet eller Reisen til det sonore landet (1989/ 2018), romanen Det store fallet (2011/2013) og essayene Jugoslavia - tre reiser (1996/ 2015). "Den kontroversielle nobelprisvinneren Peter Handkes nyeste fortelling begynner som en hevnfantasi, men ender som en fredstekst. [...] Fortellerens menneskeskyhet erstattes av en genuin interesse for fellesskap.[...] Det er sent, men ikke mindre imponerende av den grunn." Preben Jordal, Aftenposten

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE'One of Europe's great writers' Karl Ove KnausgaardOne evening Marianne, a suburban housewife living in an identikit bungalow, is struck by the realization that her husband will leave her. Whether at that moment, or in years to come, she will be deserted. So she sends him away, knowing she must fend for herself and her young son. As she adjusts to her disorienting new life alone, what she thought was fear slowly starts to feel like freedom.'Knifelike clarity of evocation ... Handke is a kind of nature poet, a romantic whose exacerbated nerves cling like pained ivy to the landscape' John UpdikeTranslated by Ralph Manheim

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE'Portrays the breakdown of a murderer in ways that recall Camus' The Stranger' The New York TimesJoseph Bloch, a once-famous goalkeeper turned construction worker, commits a random murder without thought or regret. As he wanders the streets, from hotel to bar, cinema to tram stop, experiencing strange and violent encounters on the way, he finds himself, and everything around him, disintegrating. Told in spare and icy prose, Peter Handke's masterpiece of alienation takes apart our ideas of humanity and reality itself.'A Kafkaesque crime novel' Los Angeles TimesTranslated by Michael Roloff

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE'Repetition made a great and, as I have since learned, lasting impression on me' W. G. SebaldFilip Kobal, an Austrian teenager, is on the trail of his missing older brother Gregor, who he never knew. All he has is two of Gregor's books: a school copy book, and a dictionary in which certain words have been marked. As he enters Slovenia on his journey, Filip discovers something else entirely: the transformative power of language to describe the world, and the unnerving joy of being an outsider in a strange land.'One of the most moving evocations I have ever read of what it means to be alive, to walk upon this earth' Gabriel JosipoviciTranslated by Ralph Manheim

Premio Nobel de Literatura 2019 «La comparaci n con La metamorfosis de Kafka surge (casi) instintivamente. Der Spiegel Gregor Keuschnig, un diplom tico austriaco en Par s, se levanta una ma ana tras un largo sue o en el que se ha visto a s mismo convertido en asesino. Durante los dos d as en que lo vamos a acompa ar, su mundo muta en una espiral de negaci n y sinsentido, de separaci n del mundo y de despojamiento. El momento de la sensaci n verdadera, una de las obras que m s s lidamente han cimentado el prestigio de Peter Handke, es una indagaci n nica en torno a la experiencia personal de la muerte y cuyo desenlace habr de ser, sin embargo, el del brillo nuevo que adquiere lo cotidiano cuando la infancia entra en escena. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Nobel Prize in Literature 2019 The comparison with Kafka's Metamorphosis arises almost instinctively. Gregor Keuschnig, an Austrian diplomat in Paris, wakes up one morning after a long nightmarein which he has committed murder. During the two days in which we will accompany him throughout the novel, his world mutates in a spiral of denial and nonsense, of complete separation from the world and withdrawal. A Moment of True Feeling, one of the works that has firmly cemented Peter Handke's prestige; it is a unique inquiry around one's personal experience with death and whose outcome must be that of the new luster that falls upon everyday life when childhood enters the scene.

A short, powerful new novel by one of the greatest writers in the German language. On a Dark Night I Left My Silent House is Nobel Prize-winning author Peter Handke's evocative, moving, often fantastic, novel about one man's conflict with himself and his journey toward resolution. During one night shift, an unnamed, middle-aged pharmacist in Taxham, an isolated suburb of Salzburg, tells his story to a narrator. The pharmacist is known and well-respected, but lonely and estranged from his wife. He feels most comfortable wandering about in nature, collecting and eating hallucinogenic mushrooms. One day he receives a blow to the head that leaves him unable to speak, and the narrative is transformed from ironic description into a collection of sensual impressions, observations and reflections. The pharmacist, who is now called the driver, sets out on a quest, travelling into the Alps with two companions--a former Olympic skiing champion and a formerly famous poet--where he is beaten and later stalked by a woman. He drives through a tunnel and has a premonition of death, then finds himself in a surreal, foreign land. In a final series of bizarre, cathartic events, the driver regains his speech and is taken back to his pharmacy--back to his former life, but forever changed. A powerful, poetic exploration of language, longing and dislocation in the human experience, On a Dark Night I Left My Silent House reveals Handke at his magical best.

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 outskirts of a northwestern European river port 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 commissioned a famous writer to undertake her "authentic" biography, she journeys through the Spanish Sierra de Gredos and the region of La Mancha to meet him. As she travels by all-terrain vehicle, bus, and finally on foot, the nameless protagonist encounters five way stations that become the stuff of her biography and the biography of the modern world, a world in which genuine images and unmediated experiences have been exploited and falsified by commercialization and by the voracious mass media. Crossing the Sierra de Gredos is a very human book of yearning and the ancient quest for love, peopled with memorable characters (from multiple historical periods) and imbued with Handke's inimitable ability to portray universal, inner-worldly adventures that blend past, future, present, and dreamtime.

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 out together to celebrate his return from a business trip, Marianne listens to him speak and realizes suddenly yet finally that Bruno will leave her. Whether at that moment, or in years to come, she will be deserted. And instinctively Marianne knows she must fend for herself and her young son now, before that time comes. She sends Bruno away and settles down to a life alone, at first experiencing moments of panic, restlessly wandering in rooms grown stifling. The stillness of the house wears her down, and she starts taking long walks, or visiting with her close friend, Franziska. Gradually, what began as a selfish escape from the prospects of the future becomes in fact liberation. The environment she'd always hated--a no man's land of identical houses, with all curtains drawn--recedes; her relationships with those dear to her become less threatening, less necessary; and Marianne finds a new pattern for her life and the strength to go on alone. Handke adapted the novel himself into a film of the same name in 1978.

”Ulykkelig og uden ønsker er oprørende og indtrængende. Uden tvivl noget af det bedste, den østrigske forfatter Peter Handke har skrevet til dato.” Jyllands-Posten 5 stjerner“… hans vigtigste, hans mest uomgængelige, og en bog, man absolut bør tage sig tid til at læse. Læs den!” WeekendavisenI 1971 begik Peter Handkes mor selvmord. Syv uger senere gik han i gang med at skrive Ulykkelig og uden ønsker, som udkom i 1972. Romanen er en rørende fortælling om morens tragiske liv og den dybe sorg over hendes død. Moren vokser op i en fattig østrigsk landsby med en far der ikke lader hende få en uddannelse. Hun må som andre unge piger give afkald på sine egne ønsker for i stedet at blive husmor. Hendes liv, som spænder over nazitiden og ind i efterkrigstiden, er præget af en kærlighedsaffære med en gift tysk nazist som hun bliver gravid med, og et ulykkeligt ægteskab med en anden mand som hun ikke elsker. Undervejs er fattigdom, vold, børnefødsler og selvpåførte aborter indholdet i et liv hvor hun må stille sig til tåls med for det meste ´at være uden ønsker og en smule ulykkelig'. Handke tegner et tidsbillede af en kvindeskæbne der ´fortaber sig i hverdagen´ og som kæmper med en ensomhed der bare vokser. Han skildrer hendes liv hudløst og ærligt i denne uforglemmelige fortælling. Peter Handke blev i 2019 tildelt nobelprisen i litteratur “for et indflydelsesrigt forfatterskab der med stor sprogkunst har udforsket periferien og menneskenes konkrete erfaringer.” Ulykkelig og uden ønsker regnes for et mesterværk i forfatterskabet. Anmeldelser”Handke vil skrive om sine følelser, men hans mor har levet et liv hvor følsomhed var sjældent eller helt utilgængelig, og det er hvad bogens titel kan betyde for os: ikke bare ulykkelig uden ønsker, men en ulykke så ensom og så følelsesløs, at der ikke engang er plads til ønsker eller drømme.” – The New York Times”Læs Peter Handke og se: det handler om førstehåndserfaring af verden. Ingen andenhåndserfaring. Det han ser, det han hører, det han føler, det han oplever, det han tænker, der er han.” – Karl Ove Knausgård“… en af hans inderligste og mest sandfærdige bøger. Og denne sørgelige histories hemmelighed er, at man læser den åndeløst. I Handkes sprog bliver inderlighed og distance, poesi og præcision til kunstfærdige forbindelser.” – DIE ZEIT

Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke's autobiographical novel My Year in No-Man's Bay is "a meditation on two decades of a writer's life culminating in a solitary, sobering year of reckoning" (Publishers Weekly). In his most substantial novel to date, Handke tells the story of an Austrian writer--a man much like Handke himself--who undergoes a "metamorphosis" from self-assured artist into passive "observer and chronicler." He explores the world and describes his many severed relationships, from his tenuous contact with his son, to a failed marriage to "the Catalan," to a doomed love affair with a former Miss Yugoslavia. As the writer sifts through his memories, he is also under pressure to complete his next novel, but he cannot decide how to come to terms with both the complexity of the world and the inability of his novel to reflect it.

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, "From today on, I shall be leading a double life." The duplicity, however, lies only in Keuschnig's mind; his everyday life as the press attach for the Austrian Embassy in Paris continues much as before: routine paperwork, walks in the city, futile intimacies with his family and his mistress. But Keuschnig is oblivious to it all, merely simulating his previous identity while he searches for a higher significance, a mystical moment of true sensation which can free him from what the novel calls life's "dreadful normalcy." Convinced that, if he fails, life's meaning will be revealed to him only when it is too late, he looks for portents everywhere. Keuschnig's search takes him through all of Paris. At every step, his feelings are interwoven with acute observation of its streets, buildings, cafes, parks, sky. It is an intimate and evocative journey, in a city that is at once supportive and familiar, strange and provocative.