The second sword : a tale from the merry month of May. My day in the other land : a tale of demons / Peter Handke ; translated from the German by Krishna Winston.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Handke, Peter, author.

Contributor:

Winston, Krishna, translator.

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Mothers and sons--Fiction.

Mothers and sons.

Revenge--Fiction.

Revenge.

Conscience, Examination of--Fiction.

Conscience, Examination of.

Demoniac possession--Fiction.

Demoniac possession.

Siblings--Fiction.

Siblings.

Villages--Fiction.

Villages.

Genre:

novellas.

Novellas

Novellas.

Physical Description:

181 pages ; 20 cm

Edition:

First American edition.

Other Title:

My day in the other land

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024.

Language Note:

In English; translated from the German.

Summary:

"Two novellas by Nobel laureate Peter Handke"-- Provided by publisher.

Second sword: Picks up the story where Handke's last work of fiction, The Fruit Thief, left off. Here a man has returned to his home in the suburbs of Paris, only to soon set out again. Why? We learn, over the course of a story that he is seeking to avenge his mother, who has been unjustly denounced in the pages of a newspaper. A suspenseful work of self-examination: Will the narrator's journey end in him throwing down the gauntlet?

My day in the other land: Evoking imagery from the Bible and classical mythology, the work portrays a man who has been possessed by demons, causing him to rage endlessly against the inhabitants of his rural village. Aided by his sister, he embarks on a journey to a lake on whose opposite shore lies the "other land." What ensues is an exorcism of sorts--and one of Handke's most evocative and original endings.

Contents:

The second sword

My day in the other land.

Notes:

The Second Sword was originally published in German in 2020 by Suhrkamp Verlag, Germany, as Das zweite Schwert. My Day in the Other Land was originally published in German in 2021 by Suhrkamp Verlag, Germany, as Mein Tag im anderen Land.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Miller Fund bookplate.

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

Contains:

Handke, Peter. Zweite Schwert. English.

Handke, Peter. Mein Tag im anderen Land. English.

ISBN:

9780374601447

0374601445

OCLC:

1398510030