The Goalkeeper's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick by Peter Handke the stories provide a fascinating

the stories provide a fascinating glimpse into the mind and creative processes of the young writer who was to become one of the world’s greatest novelists

A sprawling

in every culture

The present edition has been thoroughly revised and updated

Struggling to contain the twin forces of compulsion and desire

The Goalkeeper's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick by Peter Handke the stories provide a fascinatingJoseph 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.