Kaspar and Other Plays - by Peter Handke (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke's first full-length drama, hailed in Europe as the play of the decade and compared in importance to <i>Waiting for Godot</i></b> <p/><i>Kaspar </i>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. <p/>In <i>Offending the Audience</i> and <i>Self-Accusation</i>, 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.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"It's not often you come across writing that resounds with the undeniable sense that a writer's life hangs in the balance." --<i>Sam Shepard, Vanity Fair</i> <p/>"Unmistakably one of the best writers we have in that self-discovering tendency in contemporary writing we have chosen to call post-modernism. His plays and novels have steadily and splendidly put to the test many of our essential presumptions about the nature of reality and art." --<i>Malcolm Bradbury, The New York Times Book Review</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Peter Handke</b> was born in Griffen, Austria, in 1942. A novelist, playwright, and translator, he is the author of such acclaimed works as <i>The Moravian Night</i>, <i>A Sorrow Beyond Dreams</i>, <i>The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick</i>, and <i>Repetition</i>. The recipient of multiple literary awards, including the Franz Kafka Prize and the International Ibsen Award, Handke is also a filmmaker. He wrote and directed adaptations of his novels <i>The Left-Handed Woman</i> and <i>Absence</i>, and co-wrote the screenplays for Wim Wenders' <i>Wrong Movie </i>and <i>Wings of Desire.</i> He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2019.
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