{"product_id":"0809015463-kaspar_and_other_plays","title":"Kaspar and Other Plays","description":"\n\n\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\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\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\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCategories:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLiterature \u0026amp; Fiction\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDramas \u0026amp; Plays\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRegional \u0026amp; Cultural\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEuropean\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\u003cli class=\"category-tree\"\u003eGerman\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n","brand":"Picador","offers":[{"title":"Used - Very Good","offer_id":48899040444606,"sku":"0809015463-3","price":15.47,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0640\/9689\/5166\/files\/71nslgG970L.jpg?v=1789142887","url":"https:\/\/shop.sustainablebooks.com\/products\/0809015463-kaspar_and_other_plays","provider":"Sustainable Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}