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Total pages original book: 152
Includes a PDF summary of 14 pages
Duration of the summary (audio): 11M1S (2.8 MB)
Description or summary of the audiobook: 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.
Other categories, genre or collection: Plays, Playscripts