The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick (FSG Classics)
元ゴールキーパーのヨーゼフ・ブロッホが、仕事を失ったと思い込み、街をさまよい、突発的な殺人へと進む短い小説。出来事の劇性よりも、認識と言語がずれていく感覚を冷ややかな文体で描く。
作品情報
犯罪は淡々と起こり、世界の輪郭だけが少しずつ崩れていく。
ペーター・ハントケの初期代表作。サッカー選手だった男が殺人後も日常の細部を観察し続ける姿を通じ、言葉が現実を把握する方法そのものを問い直す。日本語版は三修社から復刊されている。
レビュー要約
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簡潔で断片的な文体が、主人公の内面崩壊を鮮明に伝える初期代表作として読まれている。読者によっては冷たく距離のある語りが難解に感じられるが、その硬質さこそ作品の緊張を生んでいる。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- 発売日
- 2007-12-10
- ページ数
- 144ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 13.84 x 1.02 x 20.83 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780374531065
- ISBN-10
- 0374531064
- 価格
- 3123 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Contemporary
The first of Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke's novels to be published in English, The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick is a true modern classic that "portrays the...breakdown of a murderer in ways that recall Camus's The Stranger " ( 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 Handke's 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" ( Boston Sunday Globe).
Peter Handke was born in Griffen, Austria, in 1942. His many novels include The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick , A Sorrow Beyond Dreams , My Year in the No-Man's Bay , and Crossing the Sierra de Gredos , all published by FSG. Handke's dramatic works include Kaspar and the screenplay for Wim Wenders's Wings of Desire . Handke is the recipient of many major literary awards, including the Georg Büchner, Franz Kafka, and Thomas Mann Prizes and the International Ibsen Award. In 2019, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience." Michael Roloff contributed to Peter Camenzind from Picador.
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Great!
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Steve’s two star review says more about Steve than about this book. Obviously he thought it was a sports book. There can be no other reason for the two stars. Personally, I cannot praise it highly enough but then again I’m probably going to put a plastic bag over my head and slit my wrists in a hot bath some night like Jerzy Kosinski did. I’d have done it already but for this book and others like it. A great read.
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A complex examination of the slow disintegration of the mind and the consequences which flow if those who care are not here
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Very sparse and unadorned to the point of almost clinical disengagement. Very interesting and disturbing albeit occasionally the disengagement can be the reader’s.
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Though I don't speak German (but am a least good enough with written languages to pick out certain words), I think the version I read was probably a very poor translation (to English). To begin with, the title probably should be translated to "The Angst of the Goalkeeper at the Eleven-Meter." I picked out the book for two reasons. First, I had just finished reading Don DeLillo's "The Names," which I loved, and it got me doing some Internet research on DeLillo. I found something in which he referenced Handke's novel, and I was intrigued by the title (which, if I recall correctly, was neither the way it was translated for the version I read nor the way I would have translated it). Second, I then read reviews of Handke's book, which said the language was interesting and beautiful and that the book made quite a stir when it came out in 1970. That beauty is not to be found in this particular translation. The story is easy to follow. But because the language is so klunky, I don't care much about what is happening in the story.
関連する文学賞
- ノーベル文学賞 第112回（2019年） ・Winner
- ゲオルク・ビュヒナー賞 第48回（1973年） ・Winner