Three-Part Inventions: The Novels of Thomas Bernhard - Couverture rigide

Cousineau, Thomas J.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0874130182 ISBN 13 : 9780874130188

Editeur : University of Delaware Press, 2008

Synopsis

The epigraph to Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard's masterpiece, a novel entitled "Correction", reads: 'A body needs at least three points of support, not in a straight line, to fix its position'. "Three-Part Inventions" finds in this simple geometrical axiom a surprisingly complex key to an understanding of Bernhard's major novels, beginning with his first 'fugal' novel, "The Lime Works", and ending with the posthumously published "Extinction". It argues that each of them, although firmly anchored in Austrian history, emerges from an archetypal story involving a trio of figures: a protagonist who, having been deprived of a desired object by a more powerful adversary, displaces his frustration on a scapegoat who suffers in his place. It further shows that Bernhard transforms this destructive protagonist-adversary-scapegoat pattern into a creative trio formed by the author himself, the artistic precursors who serve as his models, and the readers who receive the finished work.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Delaware Press
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0874130182
• ISBN 13: 9780874130188
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 184
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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