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The Goalkeeper's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick

Peter Handke Michael Roloff

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German
Penguin Classics
06 August 2020
One of 2019 Nobel Laureate for Literature's most important works, a spare and haunting novel of alienation

The self-destruction of a soccer goalie turned construction worker who wanders aimlessly around a stifling Austrian border town after pursuing and then murdering, almost unthinkingly, a female movie cashier is mirrored by Handke's use of direct, sometimes fractured prose that conveys the dislocation and dej

vu of modern twentieth-century life.
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Imprint:   Penguin Classics
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 129mm,  Spine: 8mm
Weight:   80g
ISBN:   9780241457696
ISBN 10:   0241457696
Series:   Penguin Modern Classics
Pages:   96
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Peter Handke (Author) Peter Handke was born in Griffen, Austria, in 1942. A novelist, playwright and translator, he is the author of such acclaimed works as The Moravian Night, A Sorrow Beyond Dreams, The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick and Repetition. The recipient of multiple literary awards, including the Franz Kafka Prize and the International Ibsen Award, Handke is also a filmmaker. He wrote and directed adaptations of his novels The Left-Handed Woman and Absence, and co-wrote the screenplays for Wim Wenders' Wrong Movie and Wings of Desire. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2019.

Reviews for The Goalkeeper's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick

The author reports and meditates upon the silent catastrophes that continuously befall the human interior -- WG Sebald One of Europe's great writers -- Karl Ove Knausgaard Handke became the enfant terrible of the European avant-garde, denouncing all social, psychological and historical categories of experience as species of linguistic fraud. But [he] has aged well and now...is regarded as one of the most important writers in German -- Richard Locke * The New York Times * A seamless blend of lyricism and horror seen in the runes of a disintegrating world * Boston Sunday Globe *


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