Kaspar and Other Plays

Nonfiction, Entertainment, Drama, Continental European
Cover of the book Kaspar and Other Plays by Peter Handke, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Author: Peter Handke ISBN: 9781466810242
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Publication: January 1, 1970
Imprint: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Language: English
Author: Peter Handke
ISBN: 9781466810242
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication: January 1, 1970
Imprint: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Language: English

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.

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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.

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