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Till Day You Do Part : Or a Question of Light, Paperback / softback Book

Till Day You Do Part : Or a Question of Light Paperback / softback

Part of the German List series

Paperback / softback

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Described as an answer to or at least an echo of Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape?, Till Day You Do Part Or A Question of Light, by esteemed Austrian playwright and novelist Peter Handke, is a monologue delivered by the "she" in Beckett's play.

This unnamed female similarly recalls other significant women protagonists in Handke's own work such as The Lefthanded Woman.

Handke prefaces the monologue in Till Day You Do PartOr a Question of Light with a description of two stone figures.

While the male figure remains "as dead and gone as anyone can," the female bursts into life, and her monologue gradually focuses on Krapp's use of pauses and language to dominate the other characters in the Beckett play.

Ultimately, however, her complaints and critique of Krapp become a declaration of her love for Krapp or at least an affirmation of their attachment, as the two of them are ultimately bound together, perhaps even inseparable.

Till Day You Do Part Or a Question of Light is Handke at his best, evidencing the great skill, psychological acumen, and vision for which his work has been celebrated.

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