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"Kaspar," Peter Handke's first full-length drama--hailed in Europe as "the play of the decade" and compared in importance to "Waiting for Godot"--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.

Book details

• Full title: Kaspar & Other Plays
• Author: Peter Handke
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 152
• EAN: 9780809015467
• ISBN: 0809015463
• ID: 11030051
• Publisher: Hill & Wang Pub
• Weight: 136 g
• Dimensions: 203 × 133 × 13 mm
• Date of publishing: January 1970

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