Gathering Evidence (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Thomas Bernhard
- First Published: 1975
- Type of Work: Autobiography
- Time of Work: 1931-1950
- Setting: Salzburg, Austria, and Traunstein, Germany
- Principal Characters: Thomas Bernhard, Johann Freumbichler, Herta Fabjan
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: Self-discovery, Memory, Adolescence, Self, Writing, Novelists, Youth, Drama or dramatists
Form and Content
Thomas Bernhard is best known as Austria’s most prolific contemporary playwright. His plays have been neither an unqualified popular success nor a critical one, but they have appeared regularly onstage and on television in Austria. His reputation as a novelist of considerable power and originality has been firmly established. His peculiar narrative voice, his individualistic manner of manipulating the German language, is a literary device which was developed to reflect an analytic, unemotional, joyless, and often bitter perception of life. His...
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