The tension between truth and lie shapes the whole oeuvre of Thomas Bernhard. At its centre stands a certain human type: the Spirit Man, whose life is mostly devoted to a study of art or science. This life's work refers to an obsession of the male subject which has no view of fulfillment. By its absence, the never realized work or the failed study is thus not only "Bernhard’s motive of the motives", but the suggestive metaphor of a lifelong lie. In this sense, Bernhard, who is considered a writing patriarch or author of misogynic texts, does not pursue an affirming reproduction of the gender discourse but rather its subtly subversive deconstruction.
Thomas der Lügner : und seine Geistesmenschen : Vom Lebenswerk als Lebenslüge / P. Bozzi - In: Quelques vérités à propos du mensonge?. 2 / [a cura di] H. Barrière, S. Böhmisch, K.H. Götze, I. Haag. - [s.l] : Presses Universitaires de Provence, 2015 Jun. - ISBN 978-2-85399-993-9. - pp. 207-217 (( convegno Mensonge et genre : Lüge und Geschlecht tenutosi a Aix-en-Provence nel 2014 [10.4000/ceg.1569].
Thomas der Lügner : und seine Geistesmenschen : Vom Lebenswerk als Lebenslüge
P. BozziPrimo
2015
Abstract
The tension between truth and lie shapes the whole oeuvre of Thomas Bernhard. At its centre stands a certain human type: the Spirit Man, whose life is mostly devoted to a study of art or science. This life's work refers to an obsession of the male subject which has no view of fulfillment. By its absence, the never realized work or the failed study is thus not only "Bernhard’s motive of the motives", but the suggestive metaphor of a lifelong lie. In this sense, Bernhard, who is considered a writing patriarch or author of misogynic texts, does not pursue an affirming reproduction of the gender discourse but rather its subtly subversive deconstruction.
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