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A Companion to the Works of Thomas Bernhard (Paperback)
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A Companion to the Works of Thomas Bernhard (Paperback)
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
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New essays by leading scholars on major aspects of the most
significant Austrian writer of the postwar generation. Since the
death of Thomas Bernhard in 1989, the literary reputation of this
complex and unique writer has risen to the point that he is now
regarded as a major European figure. Bernhard emerged in the 1960s
as one of Austria's major writers, challenging the popularity of
such established writers as Heinrich Boell and Gunter Grass on the
German literary scene. His idiosyncratic prose consists of a
tragic-comic blend of themes such as suicide, madness, and
isolation combined with highly satirical and histrionic invectives
against culture, tradition, and society. As a skillful impresario
of public scandals by means of verbal assaults upon Austrian elite
culture, Bernhard also earned himself the epithet of
UEbertreibungskunstler (artist of exaggeration). In this art of
cultural and political provocation Bernhard remains unmatched to
the present day. This volume of essays provides contributions by
well-known critics that examine the most salient aspects of
Bernhard's work, offering insights into literary strategies and
public themes that made Bernhard one of Europe's masters of modern
prose and drama. Essays examine Bernhard's complex artistic
sensibility, his impact on Austria's critical memory, his relation
to the legacy of Austrian Jewish culture, his representative value
as Austria's prime literary export, and his cosmopolitanism and its
significance forthe rapidly changing multicultural landscape of
Europe. Matthias Konzett is associate professor of German at Yale
University. He is the author of The Rhetoric of National Dissent in
Thomas Bernhard, Peter Handke, and Elfriede Jelinek (Camden House,
2000). Click here to view the introduction (PDF file 97KB)
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