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(5 pp) As an Austrian author, Bernhard was
harassed and denounced at home while being honored
abroad, largely because he dared to challenge
Austrians to acknowledge who they had been. He
complained about their vacillation with their own
national identity. And ironically his own style of
writing follows that unique ebb and flow of
complexity. His work Old Masters is discussed.
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conjuring up the essence of the cultural nation, which is signified less by the Alpine regions, than by Viennas historical role as a Central European capital. Indeed, the entire concept
of Mitteleuropa was as inaccessible as the Hubsburgs were taboo. Thus who are the current Austrians? According to von Dassanowsky (2000), they are slow to come to terms with
their Austrofascist and National Socialist past, and in a love/hate relationship with a phantom Empire that will not, and perhaps should not, vanish, the identity of Austria and Austrians has
become twice removed from its past yet remains cryptically nurtured by it. Correspondingly its contemporary writers labor against similar layers. Thomas Bernhard (1931-89) As an Austrian author, Bernhard
was harassed and denounced at home while being honored abroad, largely because he dared to challenge Austrians to acknowledge who they had been. He complained about their vacillation
with their own national identity. And ironically his own style of writing follows that unique ebb and flow of complexity. While accepting Germanys prestigious Heinrich B?ll prize in 1986,
fellow author, Elfriede Jelinek, recalled how a government minister had suggested that Bernhards brain be made a subject for medical science because "(he) opposes so many of the beautiful things
that are happening here in Austria." Shortly after the 50th anniversary of the Anschluss (German for the"union" -- Adolf Hitler occupied Austria on Mar. 11, 1938, and, with popular
approval, annexed it as the province of Ostmark. In the Moscow Declaration (1943) the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union annulled the Anschluss, recognizing Austrias right to independence;
an independent government was not established until the end of World War II).in 1988, a production of Bernhards story, "Old Masters" at Viennas Burgtheater provoked a furor, dealing as
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