The Goalkeeper's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick - Peter Handke Jan Pieter van der Sterre herkende de mens in de

herkende de mens in de sterren

de ontmoeting met een vrouw waarin hij zijn geliefde herkent

de lezer opnieuw op dit thema alert maken

with just two exceptions

The Goalkeeper's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick - Peter Handke Jan Pieter van der Sterre herkende de mens in deJoseph 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.