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838.91209 SCH Walter Benjamin : the story of a friendship | 838.91209 WAL Walter Benjamin's Archive : images, texts, signs | 838.91409 GRA Peeling the onion | 838.91409 HON Thomas Bernhard : the making of an Austrian | 839.8236 HAM Mysteries | 839 SMI Sagas of Icelanders : a preface by Jane Smiley | 839.31362 MIT F.I.R. |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Thomas Bernhard (1931-1989), a literary figure of international acclaim and arguably Austria's greatest post-World War II writer, became the first of his generation to expose unrelentingly his country's pathological denial of complicity in the Holocaust. Bernhard's writings and indeed his own biography reflect Austria's fraught efforts to define itself as a nation following the collapse of the Habsburg monarchy and the trauma of World War II. Repeatedly he scandalized the nation with novels, plays, and public statements that exposed the convoluted ways Austrians were attempting to come to terms with their Nazi past - or defiantly avoiding doing so. This book, the first comprehensive biography of Thomas Bernhard in English, examines his life and work and their intricate relationship to Austria's geographical, political, and cultural transformations in the twentieth century.
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