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The Nihilism of Thomas Bernhard
Charles W. Martin
其他書名
The Portrayal of Existential and Social Problems in His Prose Works
出版BRILL, 2023-12-18
主題Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / GeneralLanguage Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Historical & ComparativeLanguage Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / EtymologyLiterary Criticism / GeneralSocial Science / Anthropology / Cultural & SocialSocial Science / Popular CultureSocial Science / Sociology / General
ISBN90046546669789004654662
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=bt_7EAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋This study examines the nihilistic basis of Bernhard's writing, and traces developments in the author's nihilistic stance throughout his career. In the first period of his prose fiction (1963-1975), nihilism is reluctantly accepted by Bernhard's fictional characters as a necessary response to a world perceived as meaningless. Various possible sources of transcendence are explored, and rejected. The autobiographical texts (1975-1982) then represent a sustained attempt by the author himself to transcend his own essentially nihilistic state. The apparent success of this attempt is quickly revealed to be illusory in the prose fiction of the second period (1978-1986), and it becomes apparent that nihilism is a no less necessary response to Austrian social reality than to the (more purely) personal problems which first motivated Bernhard's writing.