Die unbekannten Anfänge eines literarischen Sisyphos. Thomas Bernhards erfolglose frühe Prosa

This article analyses the five different variants of a novel written by Thomas Bernhard between 1957 and 1961, which had been rejected by various German publishers at the time. The investigation is based primarily on the study by Stefano Apostolo, Thomas Bernhards unveröffentlichtes Romanprojekt «Schwarzach St. Veit». Das Konvolut, die Fassungen und ihre Deutung. This essay explores how the individual stages of the text have developed and which motifs were repeatedly taken up and varied in Bernhard’s later complete works.