Ebook {Epub PDF} Absence by Peter Handke

An old artist, a gambler ignorant of himself, a callow soldier whose self-effacing ``absence'' is a defense against the world, and a vain woman whose frantic mirror-staring fails to make her. L'absence, Peter Handke Ma note: 8,5/ Voici la quatrième de couverture: Quatre personnages anonymes, une femme, un soldat, le joueur et le vieil homme, réunis par l'aventure de l'espace quotidien le découvrent au fur et à mesure qu'il s'étend devant eux: le plus proche devient un paysage lointain, un terrain vague devient l Author: Jimmy Morneau.  · A “challenging and rewarding novel”* from Nobel Prize-winning author Peter Handke. 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.

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The Absence (French: L'Absence; German: Die Abwesenheit) is a French-German-Spanish drama film directed by Peter Handke. It follows the journey of four nameless people: the old man, the woman, the soldier, and the gambler. The film is based on Handke's novella with the same name. It premiered in competition at the 49th Venice. Peter Handke's novel Absence is perhaps the most dreamlike of his shorter works, a brazenly experimental fiction in which he seems content to let his characters loose and see where fate takes them. The setting is Europe at some unspecified time, though certainly post-World War Two. Handke, Peter, Absence. Translated by Ralph Manheim. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, , stated First Edition, pp., very good dust-jacket, very good light brown half-cloth. ISBN