By Peter Handke
ISBN-10: 0809015463
ISBN-13: 9780809015467
Translated through Michael Roloff
Kaspar, Peter Handke's first full-length drama--hailed in Europe as "the play of the decade" and in comparison in significance to Waiting for Godot--is the tale of an autistic adolescent who reveals himself at a whole existential loss at the level, with yet a unmarried sentence to name his personal. Drilled by means of prompters who use terrifyingly humorous logical and alogical language-sequences, Kaspar learns to talk "normally" and finally turns into creative--"doing his personal thing" with phrases; for this he's destroyed.
In Offending the Audience and Self-Accusation, one-character "speak-ins," Handke extra explores the connection among public functionality and private identification, forcing us to re-evaluate our feel of who we're and what we know.
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What he means about the life of the man of whom he speaks cannot be grasped by means of moral values; and what he means about his happiness has its home in another sphere from that of a man's self-satisfaction. Both the conduct of the man's life and his happiness in their nature transcend the realm of ethics as well as that of self-consciousness. Both are to be under54 T HE WAYS stood only from a man's intercourse with God, which is the basic theme of the Book of Psalms. This becomes most clear at the end of the poem where with concluding precision the way of the proven ones and the way of the wicked are con trasted.
We must ·delight' in it, we must cling to it with a pas sion more exalted than all the passions of the wicked. Nor is it enough to learn it passively. We must again and again ·mutter' it, we must repeat its living word after it, with our speaking we must enter into the word's spokenness, so that it is spoken anew by us in our biographical situation of today -and so on and on in eternal actuality. He who in his own activity serves the God Who reveals Himself-even though he may by nature be sprung from a mean earthly realm-is transplanted by the streams of water of the Direction.
With death there vanishes the heart, that inwardness of man, out of which arise the ·pictures' of the imag ination, and which rises up in defiance, but which can also be purified. Separate souls vanish, separation vanishes. Time 49 BIGHT AND WRONG which has been lived by the soul vanishes with the soul, we know of no duration in time. Only the 'rock' in which the heart is concealed, only the rock of human hearts does not vanish. For it does not stand in time. The time of the world disappears before eternity, but existing man dies into eternity as into the perfect existence.
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