„Ist das denn auch noch Sprache?“ ̶ Visualität als Entgrenzung der Begriffssprache in Thomas Bernhards Roman Frost
“Can It Still Be Described as Language?”: Visuality as a Surpassing of the Boundaries of Language in Thomas Bernhard’s Novel Frost

Summary/Abstract: This article explores the delimitation of language in Thomas Bernhardʼs novel Frost. The protagonist, the painter Strauch, has given up his art and is indulging himself in his fantasies and dreams. The literary presentations of this imaginative production unfold as an anthropology of inner images which are set against the logical order of language. Bernhard develops a concept of the visionary which questions the sole validity of notional categorisations, and discusses the possibility of specific visual cognition. There emerge tableaus of pure visuality which are beyond verbal communication and are reminiscent of wordless visual experiences. Bernhard’s strategies of visualisation are presented and revealed in their discursive interrelationship with anthropological questions.

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