KASPAR AND OTHER PLAYS - Softcover

Handke, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0809015463 ISBN 13: 9780809015467

Verlag: Hill and Wang, 1993

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Peter Handke; Translated by Michael Roloff

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Hill and Wang
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1993
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0809015463
• ISBN 13: 9780809015467
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 152
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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