The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick: A Novel, page 10
“When the kicker starts his run, the goalkeeper unconsciously shows with his body which way he’ll throw himself even before the ball is kicked, and the kicker can simply kick in the other direction,” Bloch said. “The goalie might just as well try to pry open a door with a piece of straw.”
The kicker suddenly started his run. The goalkeeper, who was wearing a bright yellow jersey, stood absolutely still, and the penalty kicker shot the ball into his hands.
“The goalie watched as the ball rolled across the line …”
ALSO BY PETER HANDKE
The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick Short Letter, Long Farewell A Sorrow Beyond Dreams The Ride Across Lake Constance and Other Plays A Moment of True Feeling The Left-Handed Woman The Weight of the World Slow Homecoming
Across
Repetition
The Afternoon of a Writer Absence
Kaspar and Other Plays The Jukebox and Other Essays on Storytelling My Year in the No-Man’s-Bay On a Dark Night I Left My Silent House Crossing the Sierra de Gredos
Copyright © 1970 by Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main English translation copyright © 1972 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Inc.
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Originally published in 1970 by Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, as Die Angst des Tormanns Beim Elfmeter
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The publishers and the translator express their thanks to Wayland Schmitt and Ruth Hein for their help in preparing the translation.
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eISBN 9781466806818
First eBook Edition : December 2011
First American edition published in 1972 in the United States by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
This paperback edition, 2007
Library of Congress Control Number: 2007932639
Peter Handke, The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick: A Novel
