Abstract

SURGHI, Carlos. VISITING THOMAS BERNHARD: INVENTION AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Lit. teor. hist. crit. [online]. 2012, vol.14, n.2, pp.153-174. ISSN 0123-5931.

This paper analyzes the autobiographical configurations of the writer Thomas Bernhard through his Autobiographical Stories. Thus, our reading aims to show how, in these texts, different experiences are narrated as forms of self-knowledge. The tales were published between 1976 and 1982; this period appears in the life of our writer as a moment of reflection, contemplation and intimacy which seeks to explain the past as a formative element for every artist. However, the literary dimension which each story assumes establishes obvious connections between the writer's apparent confessions and the spaces, circumstances and characters evoked throughout his fiction. Thus, purportedly testimonial autobiographical writing ends up being really a biographical invention.

Keywords : autobiography; narrative; testimony; intimacy; fiction; subjectivity.

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