Thomas Bernhard's Comic Materialism
Class, Art, and "Socialism" in Post-War Austria
(Sprache: Englisch)
Twenty-two years after his death, Thomas Bernhard's work continues to fascinate, irritate, and please readers. This book analyzes Bernhard's writings in the light of post-war Austrian history, challenging the prevailing formalist and psychological reception...
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Twenty-two years after his death, Thomas Bernhard's work continues to fascinate, irritate, and please readers. This book analyzes Bernhard's writings in the light of post-war Austrian history, challenging the prevailing formalist and psychological reception of his work. It does so by revealing the close connection between individual texts and contemporaneous economic and political events, such as the relationship of the 1969 story Watten. Ein Nachlass to the incipient decline of the social-partnership state, or the connection of the 1970 novel Das Kalkwerk to the shifting balance of power between bourgeoisie and proletariat. Furthermore, the book argues that much of Bernhard's engagement in public life was an attack on the «pseudo-socialism» of the Austrian socialist party and especially of Bruno Kreisky. Bernhard's critique is effected through what the author terms a «comic materialism» - an unrelenting focus on the material aspects of life - evident in his protagonists' ludicrously obsessive fixation on the objects of everyday life and in his comic critique of Viennese society.
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Contents: The «Politische Morgenandacht» in its historical context - The return of class conflict in Das Kalkwerk - Alienated labour and the abolition of class conflict - The displaced boss-worker relationship - The Social(ist) construction of art in Alte Meister - Austrian literature and the Nazi-Zeit.
Autoren-Porträt von Russell Harrison
Russell T. Harrison is Assistant Professor of Writing Studies and Composition at Hofstra University. He was previously Senior Fulbright Lecturer in American Literature at Palacky University in Czechoslovakia (1987-9) and at Minsk State Linguistic University in Belarus (1996-8).
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Russell Harrison
- 2012, Neuausgabe, XI, 194 Seiten, Maße: 15 x 22,5 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers
- ISBN-10: 303430286X
- ISBN-13: 9783034302869
- Erscheinungsdatum: 05.01.2012
Sprache:
Englisch
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