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Thomas Bernhard

トーマス・ベルンハルト

Tōmasu Berunharuto

別名: Nicolaas Thomas Bernhard

プロフィール

性別
男性
生誕
1931-02-09 (Heerlen)
死没
1989-02-12 (Gmunden) 58歳
国籍
Austrian
言語
German
居住地歴
Vienna → Seekirchen → Traunstein → Salzburg → Obernathal → Gmunden

経歴

職業
Novelist, Playwright, Poet, Polemicist
活動期間
1957年〜1989年
影響を受けた人物
Johannes Freumbichler, Franz Kafka, Robert Musil
影響を与えた人物
Elfriede Jelinek

学歴

Mozarteum University Salzburg
Acting and Singing
期間: 1955-1957
国: Austria
Studied acting and singing

受賞歴

Georg Büchner Prize
1970
対象作品: A Party for Boris / The Lime Works
主催: German Academy for Language and Literature
結果: 受賞
Grillparzer Prize
1972
対象作品: A Party for Boris
主催: Austrian Academy of Sciences
結果: 受賞
Bremen Literature Prize
1965
対象作品: Frost
結果: 受賞

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

Correction

1975年 Novel

A perfectionist protagonist's story revolving around his mathematician brother's legacy.

DeathIsolationMadness
翻訳
  • English translation available

Extinction

1986年 Novel

Monologue about inheriting an Italian school.

DeathIllnessCritique of Austria
翻訳
  • English translation available

Frost

1963年 Novel

An assistant searches for a painter.

ObservationBreakdown
翻訳
  • English translation available

全著作

  • Frost (1963)
  • Correction (1975)
  • Extinction (1986)

作品の翻訳

  • Translated into many languages

作風・主題

文体
Long monologuesRepetitionIdiosyncratic punctuation
頻出モチーフ
DeathIsolationIllnessMadnessSuicide

健康

  • Pleurisy and Tuberculosis
    1949-1951
    Lifelong lung disease
  • Sarcoidosis and heart disease
    1978-1989
    Died of heart failure

評価・遺産

One of the most important German-language authors of the postwar era, highly critical of Austrian culture.

関連学会

  • International Thomas Bernhard Society

資料所蔵先

  • Thomas Bernhard Research Center

引用

  • We are Austrians, we are apathetic; we are life as crass disinterest in life...
    出典: Acceptance speech (1968年)

豆知識

  • His will banned performances of his works in Austria for 70 years
  • Supported by heiress Hedwig Stavianicek
  • Grandfather was novelist Johannes Freumbichler