Description
For sale: a Rare and Exceptional first paperback edition, first printing of Kaspar and Other Plays by Peter Handke. First Edition unstated, 1969 Noonday Press. First printing stated.
The exterior of the paperback edition is in Very Good condition, with clean, bright covers with one corner crease on the front, mild surface wear, strong title on a tilted spine, toned page blocks, a tight binding with no creases, lightly rubbed spine ends, mild edge wear and lightly rubbed corners. The interior of the book is in Very Good condition with the previous owner’s initials, date received on the inside front cover. No other marks, inscriptions, or signs of ownership inside. The inside covers and the interior pages are clean and lightly toned.
Nobel 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 Godot. Kaspar 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.
Thin volume ships promptly in a secure mailer with book wrapped in both craft paper and bubble wrap.
