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The scabrous lyricism of Thomas Bernhard. .(Book Review)
With his elongated and bulbous nose, his pockmarked cheeks and his sly ruminative glance, invariably from under half-closed lids, Thomas Bernhard seemed more a Tyrolean version of W. C. Fields than the major shit-disturber of modern German literature. I mean this quite literally: as Gitta Honegger reports in her fine new book, (1) at the 1984- Salzburg premiere of his play Theatermacher (the English translation is misleadingly named Histrionics), an actual dung-heap, fuming and malodorous, held center-stage and served as a synecdoche for Austria itself.
In the third volume of his inimitable autobiography he writes: "All my life I have been a trouble-maker, and I ...
- The Nihilism of Thomas Bernhard: The Portrayal of Existential and Social...
- Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review Reid, J.H. January 1, 1999 700+ words
The Nihilism of Thomas Bernhard: The Portrayal of Existential...length English publication on Thomas Bernhard, although Stephen D. Dowden's Understanding Thomas Bernhard (Columbia: University of South...
- The Novels of Thomas Bernhard: Form and its Function. .(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Journal of European Studies Jopling, Michael December 1, 2002 700+ words
The Novels of Thomas Bernhard: Form and its Function. By J...1989. the critical industry around Thomas Bernhard has grown dramatically. Therefore...it add anything new to our view of Bernhard's writing? J. J. Long's study...
- Thomas Bernhard
- Magazine article from: Proceso Castro, José Alberto December 1, 1996 700+ words
UNA BIOGRAFIA Thomas Bernhard ha sido comparado a Franz Kafka en...ese fin. Tal es el caso del libro Thomas Bernhard. Una biografa, escrita por Miguel...poemas y relatos, el nombre de Bernhard ha sido asociado desde hace aos a...
- The grinch who stole Austria; Thomas Bernhard.(Thomas Bernhard in...
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) September 8, 2001 700+ words
...Old Masters), the last novel by Thomas Bernhard (1931-89), who was post...and of Vienna in particular. In Bernhard's late novels and plays, his...populist, would have released in Bernhard is hard to imagine. He left a...
- The Rhetoric of National Dissent in Thomas Bernhard, Peter Handke, and Elfriede...
- Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review Fiddler, Allyson July 1, 2003 700+ words
...Rhetoric of National Dissent in Thomas Bernhard, Peter Handke, and Elfriede...writers are made. In the case of Thomas Bernhard, studies of whom have mostly...writer as politically involved. If Bernhard's interventions in the Austrian...
- A Companion to the Works of Thomas Bernhard.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Journal of European Studies Robertson, Ritchie March 1, 2003 700+ words
...Frost (1963), till his death in 1989, Thomas Bernhard worked to provoke controversy in Austria...Accordingly, this volume foregrounds Bernhard as public nuisance. And here problems start. Bernhard specialized in obsessive, repetitive...
- Fear and loathing in Vienna. (Thomas Bernhard's subjects)
- Magazine article from: Artforum International Lieberman, Rhonda January 1, 1994 700+ words
...Lieberman on the Indiscreet Charm of Thomas Bernhard We all want to be good consumers...devil (at least for a moment). Thomas Bernhard, who died in 1989, based his...unworthy moments--and years), Bernhard has preserved them in his books...
- Thomas Bernhard.(Austrian author)(Critical Essay)
- Magazine article from: The Review of Contemporary Fiction Cousineau, Thomas J. June 22, 2001 700+ words
...essential details of Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard's formative years are unforgettably...description of Salzburg well exemplifies Bernhard's notoriously hyperbolic prose...underneath" (79). In Salzburg, Bernhard was to make the discovery, which...
