The Goalkeeper's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick by Peter Handke Struggling to contain the twin

Struggling to contain the twin forces of compulsion and desire

alive with fresh mindsets

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

the questionable necessity of detonating atom bombs over Hiroshima & Nagasaki

chronicling her months spent living with the rebel guerillas in the forests

The Goalkeeper's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick by Peter Handke Struggling to contain the twinJoseph 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.