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Kalecinin Penaltı Anındaki Endişesi by Peter Handke

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sidharthvardhan's review against another edition

2.0

An expelled goalie murders a woman randomly, walks around anxiously observing random observations and... that is all about it. Camus' Stranger was a book in its own league and so I won't compare this to it. What is more, Camus' Stranger wasn't this dumb. In Sartre's Nausea too, the protagonist was a white middle-aged European man but that man too was struggling with intuitive observations. Clezio's 'The Interrogation' is yet another book and one that seems to most resemble this one most - of a narration bothered by too many observations. My point is White European men and later-Nobel-laureates writing about white men seeing things too clearly wasn't exactly revolutionary at the time of writing the book.

All three books by Peter Handke I have read seem to achieve a no more than a superficial resemblance to greatness without having anything much to say and do.

fabienne2's review against another edition

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Another weird, existentialism book that is one of those horrible classics that are famous for their oddity rather than readability or enjoyment.

yiiiivhen's review against another edition

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dark slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

yarnmaus's review against another edition

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fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

elspethm's review against another edition

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dark mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

I read in a review of this book that it was similar to The Stranger by Camus and I guess it sort of is, but there is even less going on in this book. It's just a senseless murder and a man rambling around a small town for days. I don't see any reason for this book to be recommended much less for a '1001 book you *must* read'.