Overview
A highly inventive and erudite story of coming of age in post-war mainland Europe, from the 2019 Nobel Prize for Literature Laureate We join the young Austrian teenager Filib Kobal's journey from his home in Carinthia to Slovenia on the trail of his older brother Gregor, whom he never knew. 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. To piece together an image of his brother, he pours over Gregor's notebook and marked dictionary. In the latter, he discovers new words which translate into timeless images of the earth and its people. Filip finds he can associate himself with this discovery. The resulting investigation of the laws of language and naming becomes a transformative investigation of himself and the world around him.
Full Product Details
Author: Peter Handke ,
Ralph Manheim
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Dimensions:
Width: 13.00cm
, Height: 1.30cm
, Length: 19.80cm
Weight: 0.171kg
ISBN: 9780241457689
ISBN 10: 0241457688
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 06 August 2020
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Language: English
Reviews
Handke's eminence, displayed in a substantial oeuvre of plays, novels and poems, is reaffirmed brilliantly by [Repetition] -- Publisher's Weekly
Author Information
Peter Handke (Author) Peter Handke was born in Griffen, Austria, in 1942. A novelist, playwright and translator, he is the author of such acclaimed works as The Moravian Night, A Sorrow Beyond Dreams, The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick and Repetition. The recipient of multiple literary awards, including the Franz Kafka Prize and the International Ibsen Award, Handke is also a filmmaker. He wrote and directed adaptations of his novels The Left-Handed Woman and Absence, and co-wrote the screenplays for Wim Wenders' Wrong Movie and Wings of Desire. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2019. Ralph Manheim (Translator) Ralph Manheim was a Jewish-American translator of German and French literature. He translated the works of Louis-Ferdinand Celine, G nter Grass, Peter Handke, Martin Heidegger and Hermann Hesse, among others. Manheim received the 1964 PEN Translation Prize, the 1970 National Book Award in the Translation category and a 1983 MacArthur Fellowship in Literary Studies. He won the PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation, a major lifetime achievement award in the field of translation, in 1988. He died in 1992.
