The Goalkeeper's Anxiety When Facing a Penalty Kick (2019 Nobel Prize Winner in Literature)
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About This Novel
The works of the 2019 Nobel Prize winners in literature. Peter Handke (1942-), a famous Austrian novelist and playwright. One of the most important writers of contemporary German literature, known as a "living classic". He won the Büchner Prize for Literature in 1973 and the Kafka Prize for Literature in 2009. He is the author of the novels "The Anxiety of the Goalkeeper when Facing a Penalty Kick", "Reappearance", "The Elegy of Desire", "The Left-Handed Woman", and the scripts "Scolding the Audience", "Casper", "The Moment of Strangeness", etc. In 1961, he entered the University of Graz to study law. He published his first novel "Bumblebee" at the age of 24. Before that, he had dropped out of school to concentrate on writing. In the same year, he published the script "Scolding the Audience" that made him famous in one fell swoop, causing an unprecedented sensation in the German literary world. His "Casper" has a status comparable to Beckett's "Waiting for Godot" in the history of modern drama. He is also known as the master of creating "speaking drama" and anti-language discipline. In addition to literary creation, "Under the Berlin Sky" co-written by Handke and Wenders has become a classic in film history. The film "Left-Handed Woman" directed by Handke was nominated for the best film at the Cannes Film Festival. "The Goalkeeper's Anxiety when Facing a Penalty Kick" is a collection of four stories, including "The Goalkeeper's Anxiety when Facing a Penalty Kick", "Welcome Speech by the Supervisory Board", "The Salesman" and "When a Pin Falls on a Farmer's Bowling Lane". In the title story "Goalkeeper's Anxiety when Facing Penalty Kicks", the protagonist Bloch was a famous goalkeeper in his day. One morning, he inexplicably left his job because he thought he was fired. He wandered around Vienna without any purpose. He accidentally committed a murder. He took a car to a remote place on the border and hid himself. He saw the wanted notice in the newspaper, and finally stopped in front of a goalkeeper, watching him stand motionless and save the penalty kick. In the novel, Handke used his obsession with language accuracy and extremely detailed descriptions of consecutive events to convey the deviation phenomenon of Joseph Bloch's attention. The novel has an atmosphere of detective suspense.
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