Kaspar and Other Plays

von Peter Handke

154 Seiten, Taschenbuch

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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 GodotKaspar 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.

• Themen: Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft Drama, Theaterstücke, Drehbücher
• ISBN: 9780809015467
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.01.1970
• Größe: 216 x 140 mm
• Verlag: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3PL