| Absence Contributor(s): Handke, Peter (Author), Manheim, Ralph (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0374527636 ISBN-13: 9780374527631 Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl OUR PRICE: $13.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2000 Annotation: The time is an unspecified modernity, the place possibly Europe. "Absence "follows four nameless people -- the old man, the woman, the soldier, and the gambler -- as they journey to a desolate wasteland beyond the limits of an unnamed city. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Visionary & Metaphysical |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 89077504 |
| Physical Information: 0.37" H x 5.08" W x 8.06" (0.31 lbs) 118 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A "challenging and rewarding novel"* from Nobel Prize-winning author Peter Handke. A remarkably abstract book even for the very abstract Handke... Slippery but engrossing work, silkily translated. - Kirkus Reviews |
Contributor Bio(s): Manheim, Ralph: - Ralph Manheim (b. New York, 1907) was an American translator of German and French literature. His translating career began with a translation of Mein Kempf in which Manheim set out to reproduce Hitler's idiosyncratic, often grammatically aberrant style. In collaboration with John Willett, Manheim translated the works of Bertolt Brecht. The Pen/Ralph Manheim Medal for translation, inaugurated in his name, is a major lifetime achievement award in the field of translation. He himself won its predecessor, the PEN translation prize, in 1964. Manheim died in Cambridge in 1992. He was 85.Handke, Peter: - 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. |