Thomas Bernhard's Afterlives

In his prose fiction, memoirs, poetry, and drama, Thomas Bernhard (1931-1989)-one of the twentieth century's 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 Bernhard's death in 1989. These explorers have found in Bernhard's singular accomplishment new paths for the expression of life and truth. T as Bernhard's Afterlives examines the international mobilization of Bernhard's style. Writers in Italian, German, Spanish, Hungarian, English, and French have succeeded in making Bernhard's Austrian vision an international vision. This book tells that story.

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• Authors: Olaf Berwald, Stephen D Dowden, Gr Thuswaldner
• Assisted by: Olaf Berwald (Editor), Olaf (Chair Berwald (Editor), Stephen D. Dowden (Editor), Stephen D. (Professor of German Literature Dowden (Editor), Imke Meyer (Editor), Gregor Thuswaldner (Editor), Gregor (Dean of Arts of Sciences and Professor of Humanities Thuswaldner (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2020
• EAN: 9781501351518
• ISBN: 978-1-5013-5151-8
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: New Directions in German Studi; New Directions in German Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Germany, 20th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers