Summary
Thomas Bernhard: Concrete: a novel
The multiplication of concrete signs during the touching finale strengthens the magical and symbolic layer of the work, and the tragedy of the young married couple is actually the result of their failed attempt to take fate into their own hands and thus free themselves from the hard shackles that she intended for them. To that extent, their tragedy depicts life's impossibility more plastically, while the treatment of the artistic equivalent of the same question is most completely given through the creative stuttering of the storyteller. In this way, the complete treatment of impossibility as the central issue of the novel, completed the success of Tomas Bernhard in turning what is everyday - including: (auto)biographical - into a literary model that is at the same time imbued with strong archetypal layers, but also with a completely unique style that never ceases to surprise the reader.
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