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Amsterdam Launch of “To Duration”

Posted on January 12, 2016 by Scott Abbott

You are cordially invited to join us for the launch of To Duration by Peter Handke (translated by Scott Abbott) at San Serriffe bookstore, Sint Annenstraat 30, Amsterdam, on 14 January 2016, at 8 p.m. To Duration was published in … Continue reading →

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“To Duration”: an excerpt

Posted on December 2, 2015 by Scott Abbott

The first few pages from the book, both in the original German and in my translation. To buy a copy of the book from the Amsterdam publisher, click HERE.

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My Translation of Handke’s “To Duration” Featured in Tomorrow’s Times Literary Supplement

Posted on November 25, 2015 by Scott Abbott

In Gabriel Josipovici’s discussion of his “book of the year” (tomorrow’s Times Literary Supplement) he writes the following: Peter Handke’s long poem Gedicht an die Dauer came out in 1986 and has only just been brought out in English, as To Duration, in … Continue reading →

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Peter Handke’s TO DURATION

Posted on October 6, 2015 by Scott Abbott

Copies of the beautiful little book arrived yesterday from Amsterdam (after a long transAtlantic voyage).  My translation of Peter Handke’s Gedicht an die Dauer is the first English translation of the poem, published in German in 1986. Philip Baber instigated the … Continue reading →

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Peter Handke’s TO DURATION

Posted on November 3, 2013 by Scott Abbott

Cannon Magazine / The Last Books, Amsterdam, has just announced that my translation of Peter Handke’s long poem To Duration will be published in December. 48 pages. Click HERE to pre-order the book. And here a foretaste: . . . Duration … Continue reading →

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