Five readings of the novel The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty by Peter Handke

Abstract

Peter Handke’s Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter (The Goalkeeper’s Fear of the Penalty) is read as a text that, in a special way, narratively implements the linguistic reflection of the 1970s. Five different readings are presented, each of which interprets The Goalkeeper in a different way as an illuminating key text for this period.