Questions tagged [thomas-bernhard]
Questions about the works of the Austrian novelist, playwright and poet Thomas Bernhard (1931–1989) or his life as a writer. Use with the tag [german-language].
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Are Thomas Bernhard's (highly critical) opinions of other German/Austrian authors in "Extinction" his own?
I've been reading "Extinction" (Auslöschung) by Bernhard, in which the main character (Franz-Josef Murau) expounds, highly critically, on Goethe, Thomas Mann, Musil, etc. All of them are ...
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Are the events in Thomas Bernhard’s “Correction” autobiographical?
Someone told me today that in “Correction” when Rothaimer “pursue[s] his project of constructing an extraordinary habitation, the Cone” (Wikipedia), that this is based on actual events in Bernhard’s ...
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