Thomas Bernhard The Making Of An Austrian

Thomas Bernhard (1931-1989), A Literary Figure Of International Acclaim And Arguably Austrias Greatest Post-world War Ii Writer, Became The First Of His Generation To Expose Unrelentingly His Countrys Pathological Denial Of Complicity In The Holocaust. Bernhards Writings And Indeed His Own Biography Reflect Austrias Fraught Efforts To Define Itself As A Nation Following The Collapse Of The Habsburg Monarchy And The Trauma Of World War Ii. Repeatedly He Scandalized The Nation With Novels, Plays, And Public Statements That Exposed The Convoluted Ways Austrians Were Attempting To Come To Terms With Their Nazi Past-or Defiantly Avoiding Doing So.