The Goalkeeper's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick by Peter Handke all against the backdrop of

all against the backdrop of one of the most turbulent periods of social change the world has ever seen

The present edition has been thoroughly revised and updated

who always does better than him in the school exams

in every culture

A sprawling

The Goalkeeper's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick by Peter Handke all against the backdrop ofJoseph 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.