Slika Drugog u djelu Tomasa Bernharda
The Image of Other in the Work of Thomas Bernhard

Summary/Abstract: Within the imagological study of Thomas Bernhard’s work, this paper analyses the writer’s points of view, and these are present in all his representative literary works related to Austrian culture, history and society. The topics of his works tackle the origin of Nazism, moral deviance of a civilised person in Austria, Catholic national-socialism and politically organised cultural institutions. Taking Cvetan Todorov’s representation of the Other as the starting point, the paper concludes that reverse ethnocentrism is present in Bernhard’s work. The questions answered in this paper are related to discovering what the trigger was for creatingnegative opinions about an ethnic group, why the writer started seeing an ethnic group he belongs to as a foreign one, and what were the results of observing himself as the Other.

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