description: WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE'Portrays the breakdown of a murderer in ways that recall Camus' The Stranger' The New York TimesJoseph 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 TimesTranslated by Michael Roloff
language: English
title: The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick
titlecomplete: The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick
characters: Millie Seurel, Josef Bloch, Mister Seurel
genres: Fiction, German Literature, Literature, Classics, Novels, Nobel Prize, Contemporary, Germany, 20th Century, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 4844
places: Austria
publisher: Methuen Publishing Ltd