About this title: "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 ...
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Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Date Published: 1970-01-01
ISBN-13:9780809015467ISBN:0809015463
Description: Very good. Very minimal damage to the cover (no holes or tears, only minimal scuff marks), in some instances dust jackets are not included, no missing pages, minimal to no highlighting/under. read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Noonday-1977
Date Published: 1977
Description: VG+ Used, Like New in VG+ jacket. SOFT COVER, VG+/VG+, Noonday-1977, 1977, 6.2 oz. This copy has very minimal signs of use, appears to have been very lightly read, is in Excellent Condition Overall. Note: expect tanning of any paperback more than a few years old, regardless of condition. read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Noonday Press/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York
Date Published: 1971
Description: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Stated Second PB Printing of a 1969 Copyright. Very lightly rubbed and creased, about Near Fine Condition, in wraps. Octavo sized (5 1/4" x 8") PB. Austrian-born playwright's first full-length play, "the story of an autistic adolescent who finds himself at complete existential loss on the stage, with but a single sentence to call his own...(a) pertinent metaphor for our time, ..." Includes "Offending the Audience" and "Self-Accusation" as well as "Kaspar. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, New York
Date Published: 1969
Description: Very good. No dust jacket. third printing. Text in English, German. 139 p. 21 cm. Contents: Offending the audience. --Self-accusation. --Kaspar. read more
Edition: First edition. Sixth printing 1975
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux, New York
Date Published: 1970
ISBN-13:9780374508241ISBN:0374508240
Description: Fine. No dust jacket as issued. Perfect. One page fold. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 144 p. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York:
Date Published: (1969).
Description: First U.S. edition. Fine in price-clipped dustwrapper with faint tanning to spine. Translated by Michale Roloff. Includes "Kaspar" (hailed in Europe as "the play of the decade"), "Offending the Audience" and "Self-Accusation. " read more
Description: Good. Light shelving wear with minimal damage to cover and bindings. Pages show minor use. Help save a tree. Buy all your used books from Green Earth Books. Read. Recycle and Reuse! read more
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