Sunday, June 22, 2008
Soccer and Peter Handke
For the 2nd straight day, a Euro cup game was tied after regulation and two overtimes, 2 hrs. of playing time (let's see an American football player do that), and so it was up to free kicks. And this reminds me of one of my favorite titles in literature, Peter Handke's The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick, a short novel. My intro to this Austrian playwright/author was his play Insulting the Audience, which was given a spirited -- and insulting -- production at the University of Oregon when I was working on my MFA there in the early 70s. Been a fan ever since.
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THAT FAVORITE "TITLE" IS MINE, AND IT MIGHT SO EASILY HAVE COME OUT WRONG. BELOW SOME LINKS TO A VARIETY OF HANDKE SITES. MICHAEL ROLOFF
HANDKE LINKS + BLOGS
SCRIPTMANIA PROJECT MAIN SITE: http://www.handke.scriptmania.com
and 12 sub-sites
http://www.handkelectures.freeservers.com [the drama lecture]
http://www.handke.scriptmania.com/realblog.html
[pertaining to scriptmania matters]
http://www.kultur.at/see/roloff.htm
[dem handke auf die schliche/ prosa, a book of mine about Handke]
http://handke-discussion.blogspot.com/ [the current American Scholar caused controversy about Handke, reviews, detailed of Coury/Pilipp's THE WORKS OF PETER HANDKE]
http://www.artscritic.blogspot.com [some handke material, too, the Milosevic controversy summarized]
Goalie's Anxiety is such a quirky, nuanced book with a dazzling finish. Better yet, in my opinion, is The Weight of The World, Handke's journal. Read a page, set it down and look around. It's as if you've re-entered he world with a better prescription for your specs.
dan@coshnear.org
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