{"product_id":"kaspar-and-other-plays-0809015463","title":"Kaspar and Other Plays","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0809015463\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Handke, Peter\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNobel Prize winner Peter Handke's first full-length drama, hailed in Europe as \"the play of the decade\" and compared in importance to Waiting for GodotKaspar 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68079747465504,"sku":"NEW0809015463","price":26.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/71nslgG970L.jpg?v=1793503097","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/en-ca\/products\/kaspar-and-other-plays-0809015463","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}