The Goalkeeper's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick
Peter Handke author Michael Roloff translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Published:6th Aug '20
£7.99
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One of 2019 Nobel Laureate for Literature's most important works, a spare and haunting novel of alienation.
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE
'Portrays the breakdown of a murderer in ways that recall Camus' The Stranger' The New York Times
Joseph Bloch, a once-famous goalkeeper turned construction worker, commits a random murder without thought or regret. As he wanders the streets, from hotel to bar, cinema to tram stop, experiencing strange and violent encounters on the way, he finds himself, and everything around him, disintegrating. Told in spare and icy prose, Peter Handke's masterpiece of alienation takes apart our ideas of humanity and reality itself.
'A Kafkaesque crime novel' Los Angeles Times
Translated by Michael Roloff
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
ISBN: 9780241457696
Dimensions: 194mm x 128mm x 12mm
Weight: 60g
96 pages