Thomas Bernhard by Gitta Honegger
The Making of an Austrian
Blending biography, cultural history, and close reading, this study traces a fiercely provocative postwar Austrian writer from a childhood marked by illness and family turbulence through decades of literary and theatrical controversy. Drawing on archival sources, it shows how his rants, repetitions, and bleak comedy evolved alongside collaborations in the national theater, and how his attacks on complacent nationalism paradoxically forged the very identity he spent a lifetime denouncing.
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- Published
- 2001
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- American
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- English
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