{"product_id":"9780809015467","title":"Kaspar and Other Plays","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eKaspar and Other Plays\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Peter Handke\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNobel Prize winner Peter Handke's first full-length drama, hailed in Europe as \"the play of the decade\" and compared in importance to \u003ci\u003eWaiting for Godot\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKaspar \u003c\/i\u003eis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eOffending the Audience\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSelf-Accusation\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“It's not often you come across writing that resounds with the undeniable sense that a writer's life hangs in the balance.” —\u003ci\u003eSam Shepard, Vanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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.” —\u003ci\u003eMalcolm Bradbury, The New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner Nobel Prize in Literature (2019)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780809015467\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Picador","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40660292239566,"sku":"9780809015467","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_42d62c96-bc1a-4547-ae1b-15c90759f140.jpg?v=1639536879","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780809015467","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}