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The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick: A Novel (FSG Classics) (original 1970; edition 2007)

by Peter Handke (Author), Michael Roloff (Translator)

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The first of Peter Handke's novels to be published in English,The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kickis a true modern classic that "portrays the...breakdown of a murderer in ways that recall Camus'sThe Stranger" (Richard Locke,The New York Times).The self-destruction of a soccer goalie turned construction worker who wanders aimlessly around a stifling Austrian border town after pursuing and then murdering, almost unthinkingly, a female movie cashier is mirrored by his use of direct, sometimes fractured prose that conveys "at its best a seamless blend of lyricism and horror seen in the runes of a disintegrating world" (Bill Marx,Boston Sunday Globe).… (more)
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Title:The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick: A Novel (FSG Classics)
Authors:Peter Handke (Author)
Other authors:Michael Roloff (Translator)
Info:Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2007), Edition: First Edition, 144 pages
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The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick by Peter Handke (1970)

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Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter ♦ Peter Handke | Rezension

Dies ist eines dieser seltenen Werke, das sowohl über Kritik als auch über Satire steht. [b:Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter|1739740|Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter|Peter Handke|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1359882479l/1739740._SY75_.jpg|1388905] hätte aber für mich nicht langweiliger sein können. Es war schlicht und ergreifend das Buch des Grauens für mich.



Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter ♦ Peter Handke

Meinung

[a:Peter Handke|965|Peter Handke|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1417260177p2/965.jpg] scheint mir ein frustrierter Österreicher gewesen zu sein, als er dieses Buch verfasste, daher wirkt das Werk auch eher klinisch und weitgehend humorlos. Der Protagonist der Geschichte, Herr Bloch, der zuvor als Bauarbeiter gearbeitet und seine Freizeit als Torwart verbracht hat, wird in diesem Werk in der dritten Person angesprochen. Es wird nicht enthüllt, warum Bloch gekündigt und aus der Fußballmannschaft geworfen wurde. Ebenso bleiben jegliche Gründe für den Mord im Dunkel, was den Charakter von den LeserInnen immer weiter entfremdet. Es war mir nicht möglich auch nur ansatzweise Sympathien für den Protagonisten aufzubauen.

Da [b:Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter|1739740|Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter|Peter Handke|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1359882479l/1739740._SY75_.jpg|1388905] ein Buch über die moderne Langeweile zu sein scheint, muss ich wohl auch die vielen Wieso’s und Warum’s nicht beantwortet bekommen. Das Lesen dieses Buches hat bei mir keine Begeisterung entfachen können. Dies liegt aber zu einem Großteil an der Erzählperspektive und wie mir Blochs Inneres beschrieben wird. Den Bezug zu seiner Außenwelt scheint der Charakter vollständig verloren zu haben. Blochs imaginäres Universum ist weder sehr lebendig, noch mysteriös. Einfach nur sterbenslangweilig.

Da der allwissende Erzähler außerdem viel zu viele von Blochs inneren Gedanken ausgelassen hat, ist es unmöglich zu behaupten, ob unser Protagonist bei vollem Bewusstsein ist. Bloch wirkt zu oft sehr vergesslich oder er ist ein Meister darin, die Wahrheit zu verleugnen. Oder aber, er ist einfach verrückt. Ich wurde aus Bloch einfach nicht schlau.

Der Großteil des Buches beschreibt Blochs tägliche Aktivitäten. Da wäre das Aufstehen am Morgen, das Fernsehen oder wie er sich auf seltsame Gespräche und Begegnungen mit anderen Gästen im Wirtshaus einlässt. Ebenso sein Trinken, dass er ins Kino geht und ab und an ohnmächtig wird. Außerdem wird beschrieben, wie er versucht, auf der Straße Mädchen aufzureißen, in der Stadt umherläuft und gegen ein totes Wiesel tritt.
Seine Veranlagung, alles um sich herum zu über-definieren und skurrile Verbindungen zwischen scheinbar nicht zusammenhängenden Dingen herzustellen, sind so verwirrend, dass ich teils glaubte, selbst den Verstand zu verlieren.

Fazit

⭐/5

Ich habe noch nie etwas Langweiligeres und so Sinnfreies in meinem Leben gelesen. Hier wird es auch definitiv keinen Re-read geben. Dieses Buch darf weiter in meinem Regal stehen, da es zur Komplettierung der SZ Bibliothek beiträgt. Aber ein Post-it mit einem dicken Nein, danke! befindet sich bereits im Inneren.


This review was first published at The Art of Reading. ( )
  RoXXieSiXX | May 20, 2024 |
Dopo qualche tempo Bloch notò che lei parlava già come di cose proprie delle cose di cui lui le aveva appena raccontato, mentre invece lui, quando menzionava qualcosa di cui lei aveva appena parlato, ogni volta si limitava o a citare cautamente lei, oppure, non appena ne parlava con parole proprie, a premettervi sempre un estraniante e distanziante «questo» o «questa», quasi temesse di mescolare le sue faccende con le proprie.
(15)

Tutto ciò che vedeva era delimitato nel modo più insopportabile.
...
A ciascuna visione di un oggetto seguiva subito la parola. La sedia, l’attaccapanni, la chiave.

(42)

Potrebbe trattarsi del limite concessoci dalla gettatezza:

La noia profonda che si insinua serpeggiando nelle profondità della nostra esistenza come nebbia silenziosa, stringe insieme tutte le cose, gli uomini e l’individuo stesso con esse, in una singolare indifferenza. Questa è la noia che rivela l’essente nella sua totalità.
Heidegger, Che cos’è la metafisica?, pp. 16-17

( )
  NewLibrary78 | Jul 22, 2023 |
This slim book seems to draw readymade comparisons to Camus's L'Étranger, which I think is a very poor way to approach Handke's novella. While both texts deal with a man in an existential crisis and while there are murders, the similarities end there. Camus is concerned with the dissolution of a specific kind of French masculine identity; Handke's subject matter here is analogous, but this is a text very rooted in Austrian anxieties in the late-1960s.

If anything, The Goalie... should draw comparisons to Kafka. Handke's use of time, disorientation, the limits of language and discourse, and also the uncanny sense of reality mirroring dreams (and vice versa) are much more indebted to Kafka than to Camus.

Bloch is a difficult character to follow, and Handke enjoys confusing the reader to mimic Bloch's own mental state. Some of the scenes are bafflingly nonsensical, while others play on puns and linguistic turns of phrases in unique ways. Here's a short example of the latter:

"Gradually, when he said something now, he himself reappeared in what he said. The landlady asked him to stay for lunch. Bloch, who had planned to stay at her place anyway, refused."

This is much more of a Kafkaesque refusal. An example of how lost in language Bloch is, but juxtaposed against a legalese in which he cannot share (thus emphasizing his isolation):

"The policemen, who made the usual remarks, nevertheless seemed to mean something entirely different by them; at least they purposely mispronounced phrases like 'got to remember' and 'take off' as 'goats you remember' and 'take-off' and, just as purposely, let their tongues slide over others, saying 'whitewash?' instead of 'why watch?' and 'closed, or' instead of 'close door.'"

There's something almost Lacanian in Handke's playful and yet deranged handling of language and alienation in this witty and puzzling book. ( )
  proustitute | Apr 2, 2023 |
I really don't like reading books that have a voice of a mental person. ( )
  autumnesf | Feb 4, 2023 |
This book is efficient and ugly in style. Handke, a German author who published The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick in the 1970s. Its staccato narration, a stream of consciousness complete with aborted thoughts and sudden interjection of sensory details, makes this novella a textbook example of the avant-garde movement. By page 20, Handke’s main character, Bloch, has strangled a woman, and the rest of the book spirals through his mental states, eccentrically orbiting the themes of justice, alarm, and the context of human behavior. The abrupt style of prose, a very intimate third person narration consisting almost entirely of simple subject-verb-noun sentences, fits this analysis of character well.
The efficiency of Goalie’s Anxiety is in its comparison of Bloch’s sensations to what we would consider normal. There is a constant exchange between what Bloch is doing and what he thinks he should be doing or saying, providing a critique of social interaction by viewing it slightly askew. Though I can’t say it was enjoyable to read, and in fact took me three different efforts to gather enough motivation to finish, it was more effectively thought-provoking because of this lack of fluidity. ( )
  et.carole | Jan 21, 2022 |
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Handke, Peterprimary authorall editionsconfirmed
Bussink, GerritTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Fontcuberta I Gel, JoanTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Janus, PetrTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Ohlbaum, IsoldePhotographersecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Roloff, MichaelTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Wolf, EberhardCover designersecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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Dem Monteur Josef Bloch, der früher ein bekannter Tormann gewesen war, wurde, als er sich am Vormittag zur Arbeit meldete, mitgeteilt, daß er entlassen sei.
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"The men are shouting much too much," Bloch said. "A good game goes very quietly."
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The first of Peter Handke's novels to be published in English,The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kickis a true modern classic that "portrays the...breakdown of a murderer in ways that recall Camus'sThe Stranger" (Richard Locke,The New York Times).The self-destruction of a soccer goalie turned construction worker who wanders aimlessly around a stifling Austrian border town after pursuing and then murdering, almost unthinkingly, a female movie cashier is mirrored by his use of direct, sometimes fractured prose that conveys "at its best a seamless blend of lyricism and horror seen in the runes of a disintegrating world" (Bill Marx,Boston Sunday Globe).

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