The Goalkeeper's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick

The Goalkeeper's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick
Peter Handke
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 96pg
6 Aug 2020 UK
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9780241457696
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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.
A seamless blend of lyricism and horror seen in the runes of a disintegrating world * Boston Sunday Globe *
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 *
One of Europe's great writers -- Karl Ove Knausgaard
The author reports and meditates upon the silent catastrophes that continuously befall the human interior -- WG Sebald
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.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9780241457696
Published: 6 Aug 2020
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Publisher: Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 96

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