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- Title
Machtkämpfe in der "Gesellschaftshölle"? Thomas Bernhards Holzfällen, Walter Gronds Der Soldat und das Schöne, die österreichische Kulturszene, die Kunstfreiheit und das Persönlichkeitsrecht.
- Authors
Birkner, Nina; Mix, York-Gothart
- Abstract
In their (key) novels, Bernhard and Grond express a harsh critique against the arts and culture sector in Austria. Whereas Grond's Der Soldat und das Schöne needs to be read as a personal settlement of accounts with the arts and culture scene in Graz, Bernhard reverts in his novel to real people. He does this to take position via the process of demarcating himself against the competing group authors. He charges them of having traded their intellectual autonomy for worldly honours. In Holzfallen, the narrator not only judges over the Austrian arts and culture sector, but also over himself In contrast, Grond shows his protagonist to be an innocent victim of a conspiracy and lacks the self-criticism which characterises Bernhard s text.
- Subjects
GRAZ (Austria); AUSTRIA; GROND, Walter; BERNHARD, Thomas, 1931-1989; AUSTRIAN arts; CULTURE; CRITICISM
- Publication
Amsterdamer Beiträge zur Neueren Germanistik, 2010, Vol 73, Issue 1, p47
- ISSN
0304-6257
- Publication type
Article