FSG Classics The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick, (Paperback)

from proustitute

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 ...

from icolford

This short novel, the first of Peter Handke's novels to be published in English, tells the story of Joseph Bloch, a soccer goalie turned construction worker, who in the opening scene, under the belief that he has been fired, leaves the job site in Vienna where he has been working and embarks upon...

from dimi777

I liked very much to book, I believe it's one of his best novels. His hero Bloch, an ex goalkeeper, jobless and divorced is walking at the streets of Vienna without any intention. Everything around is hostile and threatens him, even the words are hiding something evil and harmful. The objects aro...

from kant1066

This review contains spoilers. In this novel, "The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick," Peter Handke puts on full display the self-conscious experimentation for which he has become so well-known over the last four decades. This is Handke's third novel (originally published in Germany in 1970), ...

from Dreesie

I honestly expected this to be 133 pages of a goalie stressing out about a penalty kick. It was not that. Instead, we have a goalie-turned-construction-worker. He has murdered a woman. And now we get 133 pages of his analyzing everything he is doing and everyone else is doing and even what things...