The Left-Handed Woman
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- Paperback
80 pages
- Release Date
6 August 2020
Summary
A young woman faces loneliness and alienation on a journey to find her own life outside being a wife and mother in Nobel Prize-winning author Peter Handke’s The Left-Handed Woman.
One evening, when Marianne and her husband, Bruno, are dining out together to celebrate his return from a business trip, Marianne listens to him speak and realizes suddenly yet finally that Bruno will leave her. Whether at that moment, or in years to come, she will be deserted. And instinctively Mar…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241457672 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 024145767X |
| Author: | Peter Handke, Ralph Manheim |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 80 |
| Release Date: | 6 August 2020 |
| Weight: | 60g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 6mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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Handke became the enfant terrible of the European avant-garde, denouncing all social, psychological and historical categories of experience as species of linguistic fraud. But [he] has aged well and now…is regarded as one of the most important writers in German – Richard Locke * The New York Times *
About The Author
Peter Handke
Peter Handke
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
Ralph Manheim was a Jewish-American translator of German and French literature. He translated the works of Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Günter 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.
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