by Thomas Bernhard · Suhrkamp · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783518133187
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«Ein Fest für Boris» is Thomas Bernhard's first play, published by Suhrkamp in paperback (107 pages, in German).
A closed society, almost a clinical case: a legless woman imagines reality from her wheelchair and prepares a macabre birthday for her husband Boris and his thirteen fellow sufferers. Space, body and language appear reduced, and with them human relations.
It belongs to the Edition Suhrkamp collection (number 3318). The play was originally published in 1970; this edition is from October 1996.
Will appeal to readers of theatre and German literature, especially those studying Thomas Bernhard.
Nicolaas Thomas Bernhard was an Austrian novelist, playwright, poet and polemicist who is considered one of the most important German-language authors of the postwar era. He explored themes of death, isolation, obsession and illness in controversial literature that was pessimistic about the human condition and highly critical of post-war Austrian and European culture. He developed a distinctive prose style often featuring multiple perspectives on characters and events, idiosyncratic vocabulary and punctuation, and long monologues by protagonists on the verge of insanity.
