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I Thomas Bernhards anden selvbiografiske roman Kælderen. En unddragelse (1976), der udspiller sig umiddelbart efter Anden Verdenskrig, indleder han sine læreår med at vende gymnasiet ryggen og gå i den modsatte retning for at begynde i købmandslære. I Salzburgs ghetto, Scherzhauserfeldkvarteret, kommer den unge købmandslærling i livets hårde skole blandt byens ydmygede og sårede. Arbejdet og de mange menneskelige møder, forvandler den introverte dreng til et socialt individ og sender mod slutningen hans stræben i en ny retning; han begynder at tage undervisning i sang. Kælderen kan læses som en klassisk dannelsesrejse, hvor et ungt menneske ved at vælge sin egen vej finder sig selv. Bernhards kontrapunktiske prosa og kompromisløse sandhedssøgen er endnu engang med til at gøre rejsen til en helt igennem moderne selvbeskrivelse.… (more)
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In this part of his autobiography, published in 1979, four years after Die Ursache, and covering the period (as near as I could work out) 1946-48, Thomas Bernhard surprises no-one by setting off in the opposite direction. He has a lot of fun with the paradox that dropping out
In the last section of the book Bernhard throws a few too many aphorisms at us (only a little bit: probably registering about 0.05 on the Thomas Mann scale of abstract nounery), but for the rest it's just as brilliant, fresh and unexpected as we would expect from him.
* this book contains few full stops, few chapters and very few - if any - line breaks
* the style is kind of Aspergerish, in a good way
You get into a trance with the writing, which is obviously either by a master or by somebody who got really
I can't do this book justice. It's like twirling Dervishes and trance music: you have to get into it to be able to really appreciate it. So go.