Short Letter Long Farewell

Author : Peter Handke
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1974-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466807037

Get Book

Short Letter, Long Farewell by Peter Handke Pdf

Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke's novel Short Letter, Long Farewell tells the story of a young Austrian--evidently modeled on the author--on a harrowing month's journey across the United States The book opens in Providence, where a letter awaits the un-named narrator from his estranged wife, Judith. "I am in New York," it says. "Please don't look for me. It would not be nice for you to find me." As the novel proceeds, however, it gradually becomes clear that Judith is pursuing him, not vice versa--pursuing with the intent to kill. He spends a day in New York, then goes on to Philadelphia, where he joins an old flame and her daughter. The trio drives to St. Louis, still shadowed by Judith; partly to escape her (and partly to face her), the narrator strikes out west on his own, to Tucson, where he is robbed by Judith's agents, then up to the Oregon coast, where a roadside showdown takes place and a gunshot echoes over the Pacific. "I seem to have been born for horror and fear," Handke's narrator confesses. As the narrator and Judith maneuver toward their coastal rendezvous, his life itself may depend on whether he has achieved enough--in the flesh and in the mind--to confront the pistol trembling in her hand.

Author : Peter Handke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0860720519

Get Book

Short Letter, Long Farewell by Peter Handke Pdf

Author : Martin Brady,Joanne Leal
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789042032484

Get Book

Wim Wenders and Peter Handke by Martin Brady,Joanne Leal Pdf

Preliminary Material -- Acknowledgements -- Authors' Note -- Introduction -- Politics, Poetics, Film: The Beginnings of a Collaboration -- Parallel Texts: Language into Image in The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty -- Accompanied by Text: From Short Letter, Long Farewell to Alice in the Cities -- Mute Stories and Blind Alleys: Text, Image and Allusion in Wrong Move -- Leafing through Wings of Desire -- Conclusion -- Filmographies -- Bibliography -- Index.

Author : Raymond Chandler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Detective and mystery stories
ISBN : 0345223969

Get Book

The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler Pdf

Author : Peter Handke
Publisher : Pushkin Press
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781782270300

Get Book

A Sorrow Beyond Dreams by Peter Handke Pdf

"My mother has been dead for almost seven weeks: I had better go to work before the need to write about her, which I felt so strongly at her funeral, dies away and I fall back into the dull speechlessness with which I reacted to the nerves of her suicide." So begins Peter Handke's extraordinary confrontation with his mother's death. In a painful and courageous attempt to deal with the almost intolerable horror of her suicide, he sets out to piece together the facts of her life, as he perceives them. What emerges is a loving portrait of inconsolable grief, a woman whose lively spirit has been crushed not once but over and over again by the miseries of her place and time. Yet well into middle age, living in the Austrian village of her birth, she still remains haunted by her dreams.

Author : Peter Handke
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1977-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466806955

Get Book

A Moment of True Feeling by Peter Handke Pdf

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 atache 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.

Author : Peter Handke
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1985-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466807280

Get Book

Slow Homecoming by Peter Handke Pdf

In this haunting suite of three fictions, Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke cements his reputation as one of the most talented writers of the Twentieth Century In "The Long Way Around", a European scientist in Alaska finds himself in isolated "places and spaces" that are disturbed when he relocates to California, a disruption that ultimately drives him back home. "The Lesson of Mont Sainte-Victoire" follows an autobiographical narrator to Provence, to the mountain that fascinated Cezanne, on a quest to restore his sense of self and revitalize his craft. Finally, "Child Story" reveals a crack in one man's feelings of isolation through a father's reflections on his developing love for his daughter in the first ten years of her life.

Author : Ned Russin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1736499106

Get Book

Horizontal Rust by Ned Russin Pdf

Author : Gerd Gemünden
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Art
ISBN : 0472085603

Get Book

Framed Visions by Gerd Gemünden Pdf

Emphasizes the fluid relationship between literature, cinema, and social life

Author : Madeleine Watts
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781646220182

Get Book

The Inland Sea by Madeleine Watts Pdf

In this "eloquent debut," a young Australian woman unable to find her footing in the world begins to break down when the emergencies she hears working as a 911 operator and the troubles within her own life gradually blur together, forcing her to grapple with how the past has shaped her present (Publishers Weekly). Drifting after her final year in college, a young writer begins working part-time as an emergency dispatch operator in Sydney. Over the course of an eight-hour shift, she is dropped into hundreds of crises, hearing only pieces of each. Callers report car accidents and violent spouses and homes caught up in flame. The work becomes monotonous: answer, transfer, repeat. And yet the stress of listening to far-off disasters seeps into her personal life, and she begins walking home with keys in hand, ready to fight off men disappointed by what they find in neighboring bars. During her free time, she gets black-out drunk, hooks up with strangers, and navigates an affair with an ex-lover whose girlfriend is in their circle of friends. Two centuries earlier, her great-great-great-great-grandfather--the British explorer John Oxley--traversed the wilderness of Australia in search of water. Oxley never found the inland sea, but the myth was taken up by other men, and over the years, search parties walked out into the desert, dying as they tried to find it. Interweaving a woman's self-destructive unraveling with the gradual worsening of the climate crisis, The Inland Sea is charged with unflinching insight into our age of anxiety. At a time when wildfires have swept an entire continent, this novel asks what refuge and comfort looks like in a constant state of emergency.

Author : Peter Handke
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466806818

Get Book

The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick by Peter Handke Pdf

The first of Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke's novels to be published in English, The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick is a true modern classic that "portrays the...breakdown of a murderer in ways that recall Camus's The Stranger" (The New York Times). The self-destruction of a soccer goalie turned construction worker who wanders aimlessly around a stifling Austrian border town after pursuing and then murdering, almost unthinkingly, a female movie cashier is mirrored by Handke's use of direct, sometimes fractured prose that conveys "at its best a seamless blend of lyricism and horror seen in the runes of a disintegrating world" (Boston Sunday Globe).

Author : Neil Campbell
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781496209627

Get Book

Post-Westerns by Neil Campbell Pdf

During the post-World War II period, the Western, like America's other great film genres, appeared to collapse as a result of revisionism and the emergence of new forms. Perhaps, however, as theorists like Gilles Deleuze suggest, it remains, simply "maintaining its empty frame." Yet this frame is far from empty, as Post-Westerns shows us: rather than collapse, the Western instead found a new form through which to scrutinize and question the very assumptions on which the genre was based. Employing the ideas of critics such as Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, and Jacques Rancière, Neil Campbell examines the haunted inheritance of the Western in contemporary U.S. culture. His book reveals how close examination of certain postwar films--including Bad Day at Black Rock, The Misfits, Lone Star, Easy Rider, Gas Food Lodging, Down in the Valley, and No Country for Old Men--reconfigures our notions of region and nation, the Western, and indeed the West itself. Campbell suggests that post-Westerns are in fact "ghost-Westerns," haunted by the earlier form's devices and styles in ways that at once acknowledge and call into question the West, both as such and in its persistent ideological framing of the national identity and values.

Author : Mark Dunn
Publisher : MP Publishing
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781596929999

Get Book

Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn Pdf

An epistolary novel set on a fictional island off the South Carolina coastline, 'Ella Minnow Pea' brings readers to the hometown of Nevin Nollop, inventor of the pangram 'The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over the Lazy Dog'. Deified for his achievement in life, Nevin has been honored in death with a monument featuring his famous phrase. One day, however, the letter 'Z' falls from the monument, and some of the islanders interpret the missing tile as a message from beyond the grave. The letter 'Z' is banned from use. On an island where the residents pride them-selves on their love of language, this is seen as a tragedy. They are still reeling from the shock when another tile falls. And then another... In his charming debut, first published in 2001, Mark Dunn took readers on a journey through the eyes of Ella Minnow Pea, a young woman forced to create another clever turn of phrase in order to save the islanders’ beloved language.

Author : Shaun Usher
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781838856168

Get Book

Letters of Note by Shaun Usher Pdf

Letters of Note, the book based on the beloved website of the same name, became an instant classic on publication in 2013, selling hundreds of thousands of copies. This new edition sees the collection of the world's most entertaining, inspiring and unusual letters updated with fourteen riveting new missives and a new introduction from curator Shaun Usher. From Virginia Woolf's heart-breaking suicide letter to Queen Elizabeth II's recipe for drop scones sent to President Eisenhower; from the first recorded use of the expression 'OMG' in a letter to Winston Churchill, to Gandhi's appeal for calm to Hitler; and from Iggy Pop's beautiful letter of advice to a troubled young fan, to Leonardo da Vinci's remarkable job application letter, Letters of Note is a celebration of the power of written correspondence which captures the humour, seriousness, sadness and brilliance that make up all of our lives.

Author : Ernest Hemingway
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781476764528

Get Book

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway Pdf

An unforgettable World War I story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his love for an English nurse.