Bernhard, czyli my i oni.
Bernhard, or: Us and Them.

Summary/Abstract: Bernhard, or: Us and Them is a record of a discussion on Thomas Bernhard that took place during the Conrad Festival in Krakow (23.10.2015). The participants addressed the writer's problematic relationship to his native Austria and his prohibition on the publication and staging of his works within the country. The discussion covered the scandalous and fateful Austrian premiere of Heldenplatz in 1988. This topic served as a point of departure for speaking of Krystian Lupa's plays based on Bernhard's texts, i.e. The Woodcutters in Wrocław and Heldenplatz in Vilnius, as well as the earlier The Lime Works. The interlocutors also discussed Bernhard's plays and novels in terms of their translation difficulties, their linguistic attributes, and the writer's characteristic inextricable relationship between his life experience and his art.

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