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His novels, mostly ultra objective, deadpan accounts of characters in extreme states of mind, include The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick (1970) and The Left-Handed Woman (1976). [ 4 ] . Prompted by his mother's suicide in 1971, he reflected her life in the novella A Sorrow Beyond Dreams (1972).
His best-known novel, Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter (1970; The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick), is an imaginative thriller about a former football (soccer) player who commits a pointless murder and then waits for the police to take him into custody.
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- A Sorrow Beyond Dreams Peter Handke, Ralph Manheim, Jeffrey Eugenides (Introduction)
- The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick Peter Handke.
- The Left-Handed Woman Peter Handke.
- Short Letter, Long Farewell Peter Handke, Ralph Manheim (Translator), Greil Marcus (Introduction)
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- A Sorrow Beyond Dreams by Peter Handke, Ralph Manheim, Jeffrey Eugenides (Introduction)
- The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick.
- The Left-Handed Woman.
- Short Letter, Long Farewell by Peter Handke, Ralph Manheim (Translator), Greil Marcus (Introduction)
Peter Handke is one of the most influential writers in Europe after the Second World War. His bibliography contains novels, essays, note books, dramatic works and screenplays. Already in the 1960s Handke set his mark on the literary scene.
Oct 10, 2019 · Austrian novelist Peter Handke and Polish author Olga Tokarczuk won the 2018 and 2019 Nobel Prize for Literature, the Academy said Thursday. Central European authors Peter Handke and Olga...
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Telephone interview with Peter Handke after the announcement of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature on 10 October 2019. The interviewer is Adam Smith, Chief Scientific Officer of Nobel Media. In the interview Peter Handke reflects on his work.
