A major new novel from the Nobel laureate Peter Handke--one of his most inventive and dazzlingly original works On a summer day under a blue sky a man is stung on his foot by a bee. "The sting signaled that the time had come to set out, to hit the road. Off with you. The hour of departure has arrived." The man boards a train to Paris, crosses the city by Métro, then boards another, disembarking in a small town on the plains to the north. He is searching for a young woman he calls the Fruit Thief, who, like him, has set off on a journey to the Vexin plateau. What follows is a vivid but dreamlike exploration of topography both physical and affective, charting the Fruit Thief's perambulations across France's internal borderlands: alongside rivers and through ravines, beside highways and to a bolt-hole under the stairs of an empty hotel. Chance encounters--with a man scrambling through the underbrush in search of his lost cat, and with a delivery boy who abandons his scooter to become a fellow traveler for a day--are like so many throws of the dice, each exposing new facets of this mysterious individual in the manner of a cubist portrait. In prose of unrivaled precision, lucidly rendered into English by Krishna Winston, The Fruit Thief elevates the terrain of everyday life to epic status, and situates the microgeography of an individual at the center of a book like few others. This is one of Nobel laureate Peter Handke's most significant and original achievements.
Sobre o autor(a)
Handke, Peter
Peter Handke, nascido em 1942, é austríaco de mãe eslovena, e vive hoje em Chaville, nos arredores de Paris. Está entre os mais importantes escritores e dramaturgos de língua alemã. Recria sem cessar sua escrita e se recoloca sempre como autor.
Handke publicou dezenas de obras, entre elas várias que marcaram época, como a peça Kaspar (1968), as novelas ensaísticas como Tarde de um escritor (1987), a série de Ensaios e os romances A mulher canhota (1976), Numa noite escura, deixei minha casa silenciosa (1997) e A noite moraviana (2008). Com Wim Wenders, assinou os roteiros de O medo do goleiro ante o pênalti (1972) e Asas do desejo (1987). Dirigiu ele mesmo uma versão cinematográfica de A mulher canhota. Em 2019, foi laureado com o Prêmio Nobel de Literatura. |
| ISBN | 9781250862921 |
| Autor(a) | Handke, Peter |
| Editora | Picador |
| Ano de edição | 2023 |
| Páginas | 336 |
| Acabamento | Brochura |
| Dimensões | 21,00 X 13,70 |