'Die Teufelskunst unserer Zeit?' Photographic Negotiations in Thomas Bernhard's Ausloschung.

Long, Jonathan J.

Abstract

By examining the function of photography within the narrative economy of Bernhard's last published novel, Ausloschung, and within the psychic economy of its narrator, Franz-Josef Murau, this article posits that photography is a social practice by means of which Murau is able to negotiate between the competing familial imperatives he faces in the aftermath of his parents' and brother's death.

Citation

Long, J. J. (2002). 'Die Teufelskunst unserer Zeit?' Photographic Negotiations in Thomas Bernhard's Ausloschung. Modern Austrian literature, 35(3/4), 1-17

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: 2002
• Journal: Modern Austrian literature : journal of the International Arthur Schnitzler Research Association.
• Print ISSN: 0026-7503
• Electronic ISSN: 2474-3240
• Publisher: Modern Austrian Literature and Culture Association.
• Volume: 35
• Issue: 3/4
• Pages: 1-17
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1554826