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Since the death of Thomas Bernhard in 1989, the literary reputation of this complex and unique writer has risen to the point that he is now regarded as a major European figure. Bernhard emerged in the 1960s as one of Austria's major writers, challenging the popularity of such established writers as Heinrich Böll and Günter Grass on the German literary scene. His idiosyncratic prose consists of a tragic-comic blend of themes such as suicide, madness, and isolation combined with highly satirical and histrionic invectives against culture, tradition, and society. As a skillful impresario of public scandals by means of verbal assaults upon Austrian elite culture, Bernhard also earned himself the epithet of Übertreibungskünstler (artist of exaggeration). In this art of cultural and political provocation Bernhard remains unmatched to the present day. This volume of essays provides contributions by well-known critics that examine the most salient aspects of Bernhard's work, offering insights into literary strategies and public themes that made Bernhard one of Europe's masters of modern prose and drama. Essays examine Bernhard's complex artistic sensibility, his impact on Austria's critical memory, his relation to the legacy of Austrian Jewish culture, his representative value as Austria's prime literary export, and his cosmopolitanism and its significance for the rapidly changing multicultural landscape of Europe. Matthias Konzett is Associate Professor of German at Yale University. He is the author of The Rhetoric of National Dissent in Thomas Bernhard, Peter Handke, and Elfriede Jelinek (Camden House, 2000).

Bernhard, Thomas --- Criticism and interpretation --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Berŭnharŭtʻŭ, Tʻomasŭ --- Bernhard, Nicolaas Thomas --- Berncharnt, Tomas --- ברנהרד, תומס --- トーマス・ベルンハルト --- Fabian, Thomas --- Austrian literature --- History and criticism. --- Austrian writer. --- Cosmopolitanism. --- Cultural and political. --- Culture. --- Drama. --- Europe. --- Histrionic. --- Isolation. --- Literary export. --- Madness. --- Modern prose. --- Multicultural landscape. --- Political provocation. --- Satirical. --- Suicide. --- Thomas Bernhard. --- Tradition. --- Authors, Austrian

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Austrian literature --- German literature --- History --- Hungarian literature --- Imre Kertesz, 1929-. --- Negativity (Philosophy) in literature. --- Thomas Bernhard. --- Winfried Georg Sebald, 1944-2001. --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism. --- German literature --- Criticism and interpretation. --- History and criticism. --- Bernhard, Thomas --- Bernhard, Thomas --- Sebald, Winfried Georg, --- Sebald, Winfried Georg, --- Kertész, Imre, --- Kertész, Imre, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Technique. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Technique. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Technique.

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Nach wie vor entzündet sich an Mozart die Frage nach der Transparenz des Genialen. Wie kein anderer schöpferischer Geist hat Mozart die Literatur- und Kulturgeschichte, die Texte von Schriftstellern, aber auch von Philosophen, Theologen und Soziologen gerade durch die Unerklärbarkeit seiner magischen Wirkung gefesselt und herausgefordert. Gegenstand der Überlegungen war dabei stets auch die Frage, wie Kreativität und Biographie zusammenhängen. In Längs- und Querschnitten beleuchtet der vorliegende Band aus der Sicht unterschiedlicher Disziplinen das einmalige Phänomen einer aus Faszination, Sprachkraft und Unerklärbarkeit gemischten Wirkungsgeschichte, die bis in die unmittelbare Gegenwart reicht.

Music and literature. --- Literature and music --- Literature --- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Appreciation. --- Mozart, W.A. --- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus --- Mot︠s︡art, Volʹfgang Amadeĭ --- Mōtsaruto, --- Mot︠s︡art, Iogann-Krizost Volʹfgang Gotlib --- Mozart, Johann Chrysostom Wolfgang Amadeus --- Mozart, W. A. --- Mozart, Wolfgango Amadeo --- Mot︠s︡art, V. A. --- Mocartas, V. A. --- Motsart, Volphnkank Amedaios --- Mot︠s︡art, Volfang Amadeus --- Mozzart, Apollo --- Mozart, Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Amadeus --- Mozart, Johannes Chrisostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus --- Mozhate --- Моцарт, Вольфганг Амадей --- מוצרט, --- מוצרט, וולפגנג אמדאוס, --- 莫札特, --- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeusz --- Johann Wolfgang Goethe. --- Literary reception. --- Thomas Bernhard. --- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. --- music and literature. --- opera.