The Crown of the Comedian: A Reading of Selected Works by Thomas Bernhard (original) (raw)

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The paper discusses the role of the theater actor in Thomas Bernhard’s selected works: two plays (Der Theatermacher and Einfach kompliziert) and one novel (Holzfällen). Bernhard presents the fi gure of the actor as a victim of the infi nite play between deception and irony, which determines the lives of all human beings. Therefore, the actor epitomizes humanity at its most tragic and most pathetic, but ultimately he can be also seen as a vehicle for expressing the ultimate truth of our condition and the necessity to reach beyond deception.

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