Two World Wars, the rise of dictatorships and totalitarianism, the
Holocaust, Hiroshima and the Cold War profoundly affected the
notion of identity in the second half of the twentieth century.
This book takes Agota Kristov's trilogy and Thomas Bernhard's
'Correction' as paradigmatic cases to investigate the literary
representations of physical and existential displacement. A closer
look at the biographies of these two authors sheds light on their
different experiences as displaced beings. Their protagonists, lost
in a fictional world in which no spatial or temporal references are
respected, also write to reassert themselves. However, language
reveals its inability to capture any true version of the self. Both
works merge autobiography and fiction to challenge the notion of
truth. This analysis should be especially of use to scholars
seeking to explore the link between these two authors, which so far
has been largely ignored by scholars, or generally to anyone
interested in the theme of exile and its literary representation.
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