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What is The Outsider : a History of the Goalkeeper about?

Football (soccer, Association Football). 'aloof, Solitary, Impassive, The Crack Goalie Is Followed In The Streets By Entranced Small Boys. He Vies With The Matador And The Flying Aces, An Object Of Thrilled Adulation. He Is The Lone Eagle, The Man Of Mystery, The Last Defender' Vladimir Nabokov Albert Camus, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Pope John Paul Ii, Julian Barnes And Not Forgetting Nabokov Himself ...it's Safe To Say The Position Of Goalkeeper Has Over The Years Attracted A Different Sort Of Character Than Your Average Footballer. In This First-ever Cultural History Of The 'loner' Between The Posts, Jonathan Wilson Traces The Sometimes Dangerous Intellectual And Literary Preoccupations Of The Keeper, And Looks At How The Position Has Secured A Certain Existential Cool. Jonathan Wilson. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [332]-336) And Index.

Author

Wilson, Jonathan

Publisher

Orion Publishing Group, Limited

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781409123194

Subjects

Anthropology, Social_sciences