Although he is best known in the United States as a novelist,
Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard has been hailed in Europe as one of
the most significant and controversial of contemporary playwrights.
George Steiner has predicted that the current era in
German-language literature will be recognized as the "Bernhard
period"; John Updike compares Bernhard with Kafka, Grass, Handke,
and Weiss. His dark, absurdist plays can be likened to those of
Beckett and Pinter, but their cultural and political concerns are
distinctly Bernhard's. While Austria's recent political history
lends particular credibility to Bernhard's satire, his criticisms
are directed at the modern world generally; his plays grapple with
questions of totalitarianism and the subjection of the individual
and with notions of reality and appearance.
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