KASPAR AND OTHER PLAYS - Brossura

Handke, Peter

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0809015463 ISBN 13: 9780809015467

Casa editrice: Hill and Wang, 1993

Riassunto

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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L'autore

Peter Handke was born in Griffen, Austria in 1942. His many works of fiction include Absence, Across, The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick, and Short Letter, Long Farewell.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Hill and Wang
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0809015463
• ISBN 13: 9780809015467
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 152