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Kaspar

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discussed in biography

In Peter Handke
…is his first full-length play, Kaspar (1968), which depicts the foundling Kaspar Hauser as a near-speechless innocent destroyed by society’s attempts to impose on him its language and its own rational values. Handke’s other plays included Das Mündel will Vormund sein (1969; “The Ward Wants to Be Guardian”; Eng. trans.…
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German literature

In German literature: The late 1950s and the ’60s
Kaspar), by Peter Handke, takes its starting point in the story of the foundling Kaspar Hauser and his gradual acquisition of language and culture, showing him being browbeaten into learning German and becoming increasingly dehumanized in the process. Although this play did not explicitly address…
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