Kaspar and Other Plays

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.

Author: Handke Peter
Year of publication: 1970
Translator: Roloff Michael
Genre: Drama
Number of pages: 125
Reading time: 2 h. 5 min.
Formats: FB2, EPUB, PDF
Language: english
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