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Kaspar and Other Plays

By Peter Handke

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Kaspar and Other Plays

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Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke's first full-length drama, hailed in Europe as "the play of the decade" and compared in importance to Waiting for Godot Kaspar is the story of an autistic adolescent who finds himself at a complete existential loss on the stage, with but a single sentence to call his own. Drilled by prompters who use terrifyingly funny logical and alogical language-sequences, Kaspar learns to speak "normally" and eventually becomes creative--"doing his own thing" with words; for this he is destroyed. In Offending the Audience and Self-Accusation, one-character "speak-ins," Handke further explores the relationship between public performance and personal identity, forcing us to reconsider our sense of who we are and what we know.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
154
Release Date:
1993-07-01
Publication Date:
1970-01-01
Publisher:
Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3PL
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0809015463
ISBN13:
9780809015467
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
203 g
Height:
140 cm
Width:
216 cm
Thickness:
9 cm
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