Histrionics: Three Plays

by Thomas Bernhard

Book Overview

Although he is best known in the United States as a novelist, Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard has been hailed in Europe as one of the most significant and controversial of contemporary playwrights. George Steiner has predicted that the current era in German-language literature will be recognized as the "Bernhard period"; John Updike compares Bernhard with Kafka, Grass, Handke, and Weiss. His dark, absurdist plays can be likened to those of Beckett...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226043959
• ISBN13: 9780226043951
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"