Kaspar and Other Plays by Peter Handke

Kaspar and Other Plays by Peter Handke

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.

Peter Handke is the recipient of the 2019 Nobel Prize for Literature. His widely acclaimed plays have been translated into every major language and performed around the world. Handke is also the author of screenplays (Wings of Desire) and prose works (including the novel, The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick, and the memoir, A Sorrow Beyond Dreams). Gitta Honegger is chair of the Department of Drama and producing artistic director of the Hartke Theater at the Catholic University of America.

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ISBN 13	9780809015467
ISBN 10	0809015463
Title	Kaspar and Other Plays
Author	Peter Handke
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
Number of pages	152
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