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COPYRIGHT 2001 Modern Humanities Research Association
Grossvaterland: Thomas Bernhards Schriftstellergenese dargestellt anhand seiner (Auto-) Biographie. By ALEXANDRA LUDEWIG. Bern, Berlin, and Bruxelles: Lang. 1999. 366 pp. 29 [pounds sterling].
The Salzburg Heimatdichter Johannes Freumbichler would in all probability have been consigned to literary-historical oblivion if his grandson had not happened to be Thomas Bernhard. In his autobiographical texts Bernhard acknowledges the decisive role played by Freumbichler in his upbringing, and many of Freumbichler's character-traits are shared by Bernhard's fictional protagonists. The relationship between the two writers has formed the subject of several studies, of which Alexandra Ludewig's is the latest.
As her punning title suggests, however, the scope of...
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