Summary
Peter Handke: The goalkeeper's fear before the penalty
The goalkeeper's fear before the penalty - the cult novel of the Austrian writer Peter Handke for the first time in Croatian translation.
The goalkeeper's fear before the penalty is a book in which Handke masterfully describes the despair of the individual, his lostness and isolation in the modern world, the depression and horror of Cold War Europe and the petty-bourgeois Austrian provinces. All shades of fear in front of oneself and one's surroundings are revealed to the reader through Handke's peculiar style.
Fiber Joseph Bloch, a former goalkeeper, is a true anti-hero, day by day in a growing gap between his inner life and the external real world, and his schizophrenia perfectly outlines the state of the epoch. The goalkeeper's fear of the penalty kick, based on which Wim Wenders made the famous film of the same name, launched Peter Handke among the most important European writers of the second half of the twentieth century.
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