Kaspar and Other Plays - Softcover

It's not often you come across writing that resounds with the undeniable sense that a writer's life hangs in the balance. "Sam Shepard, Vanity Fair"

Unmistakably one of the best writers we have in that self-discovering tendency in contemporary writing we have chosen to call post-modernism. His plays and novels have steadily and splendidly put to the test many of our essential presumptions about the nature of reality and art. "Malcolm Bradbury, The New York Times Book Review""

"It's not often you come across writing that resounds with the undeniable sense that a writer's life hangs in the balance." --Sam Shepard, Vanity Fair

"Unmistakably one of the best writers we have in that self-discovering tendency in contemporary writing we have chosen to call post-modernism. His plays and novels have steadily and splendidly put to the test many of our essential presumptions about the nature of reality and art." --Malcolm Bradbury, The New York Times Book Review

Peter Handke was born in Griffen, Austria in 1942. His many works of fiction include Absence, Across, The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick, and Short Letter, Long Farewell.