by Peter Handke · Editorial Alfaguara · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420425108
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«El miedo del portero al penalty» is the novel by Peter Handke, published by Alfaguara in paperback (151 pages, in Spanish).
The novel follows Josef Bloch, a former football goalkeeper who, after losing his job as a mechanic, sees his relationship with reality begin to crack. His erratic and fragmentary perception, marked by isolation and lack of communication, turns his routine into a spiral of bewilderment and contained violence.
The novel was originally published in 1970 as Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter. This Spanish edition, translated by Pilar Fernández-Galiano, dates from 1989 (Literatura Alfaguara collection, no. 31).
A brief work of contemporary fiction, recommended for readers interested in the alienation of the individual and in the prose of Peter Handke.
Peter Handke is an Austrian novelist, playwright, translator, poet, film director, and screenwriter. He was awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature "for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience." Handke is considered to be one of the most influential and original German-language writers in the second half of the 20th century.
