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The Goalkeeper's anxiety at the Penalty Kick (Penguin Modern Classics)
[Paperback - 2020]
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Category: Fiction
Sub-category: Literary Fiction
Additional Category: Classics
Publisher: Penguin Modern Classics Uk | ISBN: 9780241457696 | Pages: 96
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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.

Peter Handke was born in Griffen, Austria, in 1942. His many novels include The Goalie s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick, A Sorrow Beyond Dreams, My Year in the No-Man s Bay, and Crossing the Sierra de Gredos, all published by FSG. Handke s dramatic works include Kaspar and the screenplay for Wim Wenders s Wings of Desire. Handke is the recipient of many major literary awards, including the Georg Buchner, Franz Kafka, and Thomas Mann Prizes and the International Ibsen Award. In 2019, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience."

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