Thomas Bernhard's AfterlivesAuthor :
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Published : Thursday 21 April 2022
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In his prose fiction, memoirs, poetry, and drama, Thomas Bernhard (1931-1989)--one of the 20th centurys most uniquely gifted writers--created a new and radical style, seemingly out of thin air. His books never "tell a story" in the received sense. Instead, he rages on the page, he rants and spews vitriol about the moral failures of his homeland, Austria, in the long amnesiac aftermath of the Second World War. Yet this furious prose, seemingly shapeless but composed with unparalleled musicality, and taxing by conventional standards, has been powerfully echoed in many writers since Bernhards death in 1989. These explorers have found in Bernhards singular accomplishment new paths for the expression of life and truth.Thomas Bernhards Afterlives examines the international mobilization of Bernhards style. Writers in Italian, German, Spanish, Hungarian, English, and French have succeeded in making Bernhards Austrian vision an international vision. This book tells that story.
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