Introducing Peter Handke
Peter Handke is an Austrian novelist, playwright,
translator, poet, film director and screen writer .He was born in 6 December
1947 in Griffen in the Austrian state of Carinthia. Handke also wrote short
stories, essays, radio dramas and autobiographical works. Through his works,
Handke explores everyday reality and their accompanying rational order with
their constraining and underlying irrationality, confusion, and even madness.
He has been conferred the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature for ‘an influential
work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity
of human experience.’ He has also received many other awards including the George Buchner Prize in 1973 and the
Austrian Theatre Prize for
life time achievement in 2018.
Introducing a few works by Peter Handke:
1) Offending the Audience: A play. It is sometimes called an 'anti-play'
because of its renouncement of theatricality. It was originally published in
German under the title Publikumsbeschimpfung
in 1966.
2) The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick: A short novel. It was adapted into a
1970 film with the same title, directed by Wim Wenders. The first of Handke's novels to be published in English. The novel explores the life of a goalie who later becomes a construction worker. He wanders aimlessly around an Austrian border town after murdering a female movie cashier.
3) A Sorrow Beyond Dreams: A semi-autobiographical novella published in 1972. It is based on the life of his mother.
4) The Left Handed Woman: A 1978 West German drama film directed by Peter Handke. The film was based on Handke's own novel. This film was shown in the Cannes Film Festival in 1978.
5) Wings of Desire: Handke wrote the screenplay for the 1987 film Wings of Desire directed by Wim Wenders. The film revolves around two invisible angels, Damiels and Cassiels who move around the city of Berlin providing rays of hope to the distressed people.
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(This Weekly Post has been contributed by Dharitri Saikia, a student of BA Third Semester, Department of English, Furkating College.)
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