Wer man gewesen war. Untersuchungen zum Suizid in der österreichischen Literatur des 20. Jahrhunderts anhand von ausgewählten Werken
Who one had been. Investigations on suicide in Austrian literature of the 20th century based on selected works

Author(s): Erkan Osmanović
Subject(s): History, Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Psychology, Studies of Literature, Recent History (1900 till today), Austrian Literature
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: Austrian literature; 20th century; suicide; identity; identity construction; thoughts of a suicidal person;
Summary/Abstract: Every week there is talk in the news of suicide bombers, but apart from that, suicide is a taboo. The literary texts examined here break through this silence. Suicide can be more than just an end, it can become the only way to be yourself. An analysis of the literary text that deals with this subject may reveal to the recipients the causes of suicide. The analysis of suicide in narrative texts can lead to the result that in the suicide the characters find the means by which they are formed. The present monograph outlines how this process takes place. The analysis focuses on the following works: Der Fall Franza by Ingeborg Bachmann, Wunschloses Unglück by Peter Handke, and Der Untergeher by Thomas Bernhard.

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