BEST HANDKE BOOKS

LOTHAR STRUCK, who runs the great German literary Blog, "BEGLEITSCHREIBEN

http://begleitschreiben.twoday.net/topics/Peter+Handke/

asked me today which I regarded as Handke's best books, and I replied the following:

in German, whose translation i wil put in {...}

Man sollte es so definieren: das gelungenste jeder der verschiedenen Perioden und der Arten {the question ought to be defined this way: the most successful from the various periods and of its kind:

PROSA

1] Der Hausierer {The Peddler} not in English but in the Romance Languages...{1967}

2] Der Kurze Brief zum langen Abschied {Short Letter Long Farewell just republished by New York Review of Books Books}

3] Ueber die Doerfer [Walk about the Villages, Ariadne Press,

 this is the summa of Handke}{1982}

4] Die Wiederholung {The Repetition} 1986

5] Die Abwesenheit {ABSENCE - 1987}

6] Versuch über die Jukebox {Essay on the Jukebox} 1989

7] Niemandsbucht {No-Man's-Bay - 1992]

8] Del Gredos [2003]

9] Don Juan [oder: was fuer ein geiler Frauenheld ich Peter Handke doch bin!] [[2005] Translation by Krishna Winston exists, and so is imminent from Farrar, Straus.


und jetzt [10] wahrscheinlich Morawisch {and Morawian Nights which will be available in French and Spanish sooner than in English}

Gedichte: {Poem}

1] Die Einzahl und die Mehrzahl [aus Innenwelt] Singular and Plural

from Innerworld; some copies available via Amazon; the poem itself I use at the handkelecture site. {1967}

2] die Sinnlosigkeit und das Glück {Nonsense and Happiness - title poem of self-named book. {1973}
3] Ueber die Doerfer - Walk About the Village, see above,

it has all of Handke, his richest Work.

Stuecke:{P{ays}
1] Ritt Bodensee [eigentlich sollte man alle fruehen stuecke mitsamt stunde als ein Werk bezeichnen] {Ride Across Lake Constance - actually one ought to regard all the early pieces and HOUR as one piece}
2] Die Stunde als...{hour, completed 1992}
3] Kunst des Fragens {Art of Asking - 1995}
4] Einbaum...{The Play about the Film about the War - 1999]


Essayistisches: 9te Land. {Booklength essay: the first of his books addressing Yugoslavia, this one deals with Slovenia: The End of the Dream of the 9th Land} not in English, but in the Romance and Slavic languages.

LINK OF LYNXES TO MOST HANDKE MATERIAL ON THE WEB:

http://www.handke.scriptmania.com/favorite_links_1.html

HANDKE LINKS + BLOGS
SCRIPTMANIA PROJECT MAIN SITE: http://www.handke.scriptmania.com

and 13 sub-sites

the newest:

http://handke-photo.scriptmania.com/

contains the psychoanalytic monograph

http://www.handkelectures.freeservers.com [the drama lecture]

http://www.van.at/see/mike/index.htm

[dem handke auf die schliche/ prosa, a book of mine about Handke]

http://begleitschreiben.twoday.net/topics/Peter+Handke/

http://picasaweb.google.com/mikerol/HANDKE3ONLINE#

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http://picasaweb.google.com/mikerol/HANDKE2ONLINE#

http://picasaweb.google.com/mikerol/POSTED?authkey=YeKkFSE3-Js#

http://www.handke-trivia.blogspot.com

http://www.artscritic.blogspot.com
[some handke material, too, the Milosevic controversy summarized]

m.r