{"product_id":"the-ride-across-lake-constance-and-other-plays-9781250767332","title":"The Ride Across Lake Constance and Other Plays","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA collection of six plays by Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke, spanning the early years of the Austrian playwright's career\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first full-length play \u003ci\u003eThe Ride Across Lake Constance\u003c\/i\u003e, is one of Handke's best-known works. It deals directly with one of Handke's favorite themes: the realities of theater itself, independent of the offstage world, and the way language (dialogue) and objects (props) operate in the skewed world of the stage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTherein it anticipates \u003ci\u003eThey Are Dying Out\u003c\/i\u003e, the second full-length play in this volume. In some ways more conventional than many of Handke's plays, \u003ci\u003eThey Are Dying Out\u003c\/i\u003e presents one of his most fascinating protagonists, Quitt, a businessman who first induces a group of colleagues to set up a monopoly and then torpedoes the scheme.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe four short plays that round out the book--\u003ci\u003eProphecy, Calling for Help, Quodlibet, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eMy Foot My Tutor\u003c\/i\u003e--were written before \u003ci\u003eThe Ride Across Lake Constance\u003c\/i\u003e and show Handke moving from the experimental mode of his early work toward the richness and complexity that have marked him as the most important dramatist since Becket. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTogether, Handke's plays bear witness to the truth of Richard Gilman's observation that \"in Handke's theater, language, exposed, assaulted, wrestled with, driven to limits, and pursued still further, begins to take on, like the color returning to the cheeks of a nearly hanged man, the signs of a strange and unexpected resurrection.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/25\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250767332\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.74lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.27h x 5.51w x 0.61d","brand":"Peter Handke","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36648766111900,"sku":"9781250767332","price":14.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_9e3953ed-db40-4ea2-8856-745690d8032b.jpg?v=1603870975","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-ride-across-lake-constance-and-other-plays-9781250767332","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}