Quiet places : collected essays / Peter Handke ; translated from the German by Krishna Winston and Ralph Manheim.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Handke, Peter, author.

Contributor:

Winston, Krishna, translator.

Manheim, Ralph, 1907-1992, translator.

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Essays.

essays.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

290 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.

Language Note:

Translated from the original German.

Summary:

"A collection of literary essays by Nobel laureate Peter Handke"-- Provided by publisher.

"Quiet Places brings together Peter Handke's forays into the border regions of life and story, upending the distinction between literature and the literary essay. Proceeding from the specificity of place (the mountains of Carinthia and Spain, the hinterlands of Paris) to specific objects (the jukebox, the boletus mushroom) to the irreducible particularity of our moods and mental impressions, these works--each a novella in its own right--offer rare insight into the affinities that can develop between a storyteller and the unlikeliest of subjects. Here, Handke posits a reevaluation of the possibilities and proper concerns of literature in a style unmistakably his own"-- Inside jacket.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780374125592

0374125597

OCLC:

1281795254