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The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick.

HANDKE, Peter. The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick. Translated by Michael Roloff. FIRST U.K. EDITION. Eyre Methuen. 1977
Half title. Orig. black cloth. Photographic d.w., unclipped; front panel sl. browned, evidence of price sticker removal from front flap. Bookplate of Felix Dennis on leading pastedown. A nice copy.

¶The first of Handke's novels to appear in English: the New York edition was published in 1972, coinciding with Wim Wenders's film adaptation. A bizarre novella about a murderer in an Austrian border town. While deserving of its frequent comparisons with Camus's L'Etranger, it is a twentieth-century classic in its own right. The scene in which the titular goalie explains to an acquaintance the futile second-guessing involved in attempting to save a penalty is somehow as illuminating and chilling as anything in Kafka or Ligotti. Handke was one of the 2019 winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature, provoking a degree of controversy.
Stock #84683
£65


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