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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.
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The Goalkeeper's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick, Peter Handke
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- Released
- 2020
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- Peter Handke
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Released
- 2020
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 96
- ISBN10
- 0241457696
- ISBN13
- 9780241457696
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Contemporary Fiction, Classics, German Literature, Adapted for Film, Novellas, Football, Nobel prize, Austrian Literature, Life Crisis, Goalkeepers
- First published
- 1970
- Original title
- Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter
- Rating
- 3.3 out of 5
- Description
- 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.