Thomas Bernhards Afterlives
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Author | : Olaf Berwald |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2020-10-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1501351532 |
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In his prose fiction, memoirs, poetry, and drama, Thomas Bernhard (1931-1989)--one of the 20th 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. Thomas 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.
Author | : Olaf Berwald |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 355 |
Release | : 2020-10-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1501351524 |
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In his prose fiction, memoirs, poetry, and drama, Thomas Bernhard (1931-1989)--one of the 20th 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. Thomas 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.
Author | : Jonathan James Long |
Publisher | : Camden House |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781571132246 |
Download The Novels of Thomas Bernhard Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The book's primary emphasis is on Bernhard's later fiction, but it also explicates the early texts of the 1960s and 1970s. The book makes use of insights from recent approaches to fiction that pay attention to what can be termed "narrative dynamics." Earlier studies of Bernhard have tended to remain within the descriptive framework established in narrative studies of the 1950s and 1960s; this book views Bernhard's prose works from a more nuanced vantage point."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Thomas Bernhard |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2013-01-02 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307833534 |
Download The Lime Works Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
For five years, Konrad has imprisoned himself and his crippled wife in an abandoned lime works where he’s conducted odd auditory experiments and prepared to write his masterwork, The Sense of Hearing. As the story begins, he’s just blown the head off his wife with the Mannlicher carbine she kept strapped to her wheelchair. The murder and the bizarre life that led to it are the subject of a mass of hearsay related by an unnamed life-insurance salesman in a narrative as mazy, byzantine, and mysterious as the lime works—Konrad’s sanctuary and tomb.
Author | : Stephen D. Dowden |
Publisher | : Univ of South Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780872497597 |
Download Understanding Thomas Bernhard Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : Thomas Bernhard |
Publisher | : New York : Knopf |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Download Gathering Evidence Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : Thomas Bernhard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780571349975 |
Download The Loser Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Reissued with stunning artwork and a new afterword by Leanne Shapton, this is Thomas Bernhard's iconic portrait of creative obsession.
Author | : Thomas Bernhard |
Publisher | : Heinemann Educational Publishers |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780226043838 |
Download Extinction Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Thomas Bernhard is one of the greatest twentieth-century writers in the German language. Extinction, his last novel, takes the form of the autobiographical testimony of Franz-Josef Murau. The intellectual black sheep of a powerful Austrian land-owning family, Murau lives in Rome in self-exile. Obsessed and angry with his identity as an Austrian, he resolves never to return to the family estate of Wolfsegg. But when news comes of his parents' deaths, he finds himself master of Wolfsegg and must decide its fate. Written in Bernhard's seamless style, Extinction is the ultimate proof of his extraordinary literary genius. "Strangely gripping. The glue that holds his remarkable novel together is the unique virtuosity of his imaginative prose, a highly original kind of writing that resembles musical patterns of theme, variations and recapitulation."—Steve Dowden, Washington Times "With a breathtaking sustained intensity . . . Bernhard assaults through the voice of Murau the modern world as exemplified by his birthplace, Austria."—Thomas McGonigle, Chicago Tribune Books "Perfectly balanced and continually interesting. . . . The particular fineness of Extinction lies in its depiction of a consciousness in action."—Michael Dirda, Washington Post Book World "Bernhard's distinctive style . . . is caught with quite remarkable fidelity in David McLintock's excellent translation . . . . The work of a master."—W.E. Yates, New York Times Book Review "When Thomas Bernhard died, Austria lost one of its bravest authors . . . . David McLintock's translation . . . is exquisite. It presents an English far richer than most English language books . . . . Fresh, disturbed and punchy."—Benjamin Weissman, Los Angeles Times
Author | : Thomas Bernhard |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 125 |
Release | : 2013-01-16 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307833518 |
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Instead of the book he’s meant to write, Rudolph, a Viennese musicologist, produces this dark and grotesquely funny account of small woes writ large, of profound horrors detailed and rehearsed to the point of distraction. We learn of Rudolph’s sister, whose help he invites, then reviles as malevolent meddling; his ‘really marvelous’ house, which he hates; the suspicious illness he carefully nurses; his ten-year-long attempt to write the perfect opening sentence; and, finally, his escape to the island of Majorca, which turns out to be the site of someone else’s very real horror story. A brilliant and haunting tale of procrastination, failure, and despair, Concrete is a perfect example of why Thomas Bernhard is remembered as “one of the masters of contemporary European fiction” (George Steiner).
Author | : Thomas Bernhard |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 1997-12-22 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780226044019 |
Download The Voice Imitator Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The voice imitator who can impersonate everyone's voice but his own is an important parable for our times...