Świat jako kloaka i udawanie sensu. Paliatywy w świecie prozy Thomasa Bernharda
The World as a Cloak and Pretending to Make Sense: Palliatives in Thomas Bernhard’s Prose

Summary/Abstract: The characters in Thomas Bernhard’s prose share a fundamental experience that revolves around chaos and fear as well as an imperative or compulsion to narrate. They search for (partial) remedies in order to survive, and they resort to prostheses and palliatives in their attempts to bring themselves back into the world out of which they have fallen. Bernhard’s doubles are always motivated by an instinct of self-preservation. Among the most effective palliatives, it seems, are the Other and literature, or the Other through literature. As the writer has suggested himself, what is at stake in his writing is to neutralize fear and horror, to subdue life’s senseless elements, and to construct something in the place where there is nothing, creating order where chaos reigns, form instead of formlessness, and brittle meaning in a world ruled by its absence.

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