Austrian playwright and novelist (1931–1989)
Thomas Bernhard was an Austrian playwright and novelist (1931–1989) known for his distinctive literary style and darkly comic explorations of Austrian society and human nature. His works are considered significant contributions to 20th-century literature, influencing subsequent generations of writers through his innovative approach to drama and fiction.
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Nicolaas Thomas Bernhard ( German: [ˈtoːmas ˈbɛʁnhaʁt]; 9 February 1931 – 12 February 1989) was an Austrian novelist, playwright, poet and polemicist who is considered one of the most important German-language authors of the postwar era. He explored themes of death, isolation, obsession and illness in controversial literature that was pessimistic about the human condition and highly critical of post-war Austrian and European culture. He developed a distinctive prose style often featuring multiple perspectives on characters and events, idiosyncratic vocabulary and punctuation, and long monologues by protagonists on the verge of insanity.
Born in the Netherlands to his unwed Austrian mother, for much of his childhood he lived with his maternal grandparents in Austria and in boarding homes in Austria and Nazi Germany. He was closest to his grandfather, the novelist Johannes Freumbichler, who introduced him to literature and philosophy. As a youth, he contracted pleurisy and tuberculosis and lived with debilitating lung disease for the rest of his life. While recovering in a sanatorium he began writing poetry and stories and met Hedwig Stavianicek, a wealthy heiress who supported his literary ambitions and whom he later described as the most important person in his life.
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Thomas Bernhard (1931-1989) is seen by many as a genius. His work is most influenced by the feeling of being left alone (in his childhood and youth) and his incurable illness, which caused him to see death as the ultimate essence of existence. His most typical work are loners' monologues explaining — to a rather silent listener — his view on the state of the world on the basis of a concrete situation. This is true for his plays as well as for his prose, where the monologues are then reported se
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· 2004 · cited 43,641x
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