{"product_id":"thomas-bernhards-afterlives-9781501369261","title":"Thomas Bernhards Afterlives","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003ci\u003eThomas Bernhard''s Afterlives\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA masterful set of essays on Bernhard’s oeuvre   .... Taken together, the eleven chapters of this book represent some of the best scholarship in English to date on Bernhard’s remarkable impact on the world of postwar. ... There is too little space in a review like this to do justice to the breadth and quality of each of the other contributions. They represent literary scholars from across the major Western languages and have given us an essay collection that’s truly useful: a sophisticated introduction to Bernhard’s echo in Euro-American prose. * Journal of Austrian Studies *\u003cbr\u003eMore than three decades after his death, Thomas Bernhard has become an author of world literature. The resonance of Bernhard’s voice in the works of numerous contemporaries far beyond the borders of Austria provides powerful testimony of this fact. In its exploration of this resonance, this remarkable volume makes a significant contribution to Bernhard criticism. Through their forays into Bernhard’s international reception, the essays collected here open up new and extended vistas into the œuvre of one of the foremost German-language writers of the 20th century. * Manfred Mittermayer, Director, Literaturarchiv Salzburg, University of Salzburg, Austria *\u003cbr\u003eIn this insightful volume, we learn about the many ways in which authors across the globe have sought to emulate the great Thomas Bernhard (1931-1989), from 'anticipatory plagiarism' to 'coinhabiting palimpsests.' Writers like Susan Sontag, W.G. Sebald, Geoff Dyer, Imre Kertész, Italo Calvino, and Horacio Castellanos Moya have turned to the brilliantly querulous Austrian to pursue their own political or aesthetic projects. Their takings have been devious, inclusive, maddening, profound, liberating. There are numerous avenues still to pursue with Bernhard, and this volume explores one fruitful possibility. * Fatima Naqvi, Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Yale University, USA *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: The Master of Understatement, or Remembering Schermaier  \u003ci\u003eStephen Dowden (Brandeis University, USA) \u003c\/i\u003e 1. The Afterlife of Thomas Bernhard in Contemporary Austrian Literature \u003ci\u003eKatya Krylova (University of Aberdeen, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e 2. How Not to Begin: Wrestling with Thomas Bernhard \u003ci\u003eKata Gellen (Duke University, USA) \u003c\/i\u003e 3. Bernhard, Sebald, and Photography in Holocaust Memory \u003ci\u003eAgnes Mueller (University of South Carolina, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 4. Radical Style: Bernhard, Sontag, Kertész \u003ci\u003eStephen Dowden (Brandeis University, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 5. The Stains of Cultural Inheritance: Thomas Bernhard and Philip Roth \u003ci\u003eByron Spring (Lincoln College, University of Oxford, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e 6. Gaddis before Bernhard before Gaddis \u003ci\u003eMartin Klebes (University of Oregon, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 7. Thomas Bernhard, a Writer for Spain \u003ci\u003eHeike Scharm (University of South Florida, USA) \u003c\/i\u003e 8. Immersions into Bernhard’s Works in Recent Francophone Literature \u003ci\u003eOlaf Berwald (Kennesaw State University, USA) \u003c\/i\u003e 9. Thomas Bernhard's Influence on Gabriel Josipovici's Monologue Novels \u003ci\u003eGregor Thuswaldner (\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhitworth University, USA\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e)\u003c\/i\u003e 10. Thomas Bernhard, Italo Calvino, Elena Ferrante, and Claudio Magris: From Postmodernism to Anti-Semitism \u003ci\u003eSaskia Elizabeth Ziolkowski (Duke University, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 11. Thomas Bernhard's \u003ci\u003eExtinction\u003c\/i\u003e: Variations\/Variazioni\/Variaciones \u003ci\u003eJuliane Werner (University of Vienna, Austria)\u003c\/i\u003e Notes on Contributors  Bibliography Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing Plc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52084975599959,"sku":"9781501369261","price":35.38,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781501369261.jpg?v=1762207788","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/thomas-bernhards-afterlives-9781501369261","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}