New essays by leading scholars on major aspects of the most significant Austrian writer of the postwar generation.

Introduction: National Iconoclasm: Thomas Bernhard and the Austrian Avant-garde - Matthias KonzettPerverted Attitudes of Mourning in the Wake of Thomas Bernhard's Death - Marlene StreeruwitzThe Established Outsider: Thomas Bernhard - Dagmar C. G. LorenzA Testament Betrayed: Bernhard and His Legacy - Stephen D. DowdenHomeland, Death, and Otherness in Thomas Bernhard's Early Lyrical Works - Paola BozziThe Broken Window Handle: Thomas Bernhard's Notion of Weltbezug - Ruediger GoernerThomas Bernhard's Poetics of Comedy - Wendelin Schmidt-DenglerFragments of a Deluge: The Theater of Thomas Bernhard's Prose - Mark M. AndersonThe Stranger Inside the Word: From Thomas Bernhard's Plays to the Anatomical Theater of Elfriede Jelinek - Gitta HoneggerCostume Drama: Performance and Identity in Bernhard's Works - Andrew J. WebberLanguage Speaks: Anglo-Bernhard: Thomas Bernhard in Translation - Gitta HoneggerUngleichzeitigkeiten: Class Relationships in Bernhard's Fiction - Jonathan LongThomas Bernhard's Der Untergeher: Newtonian Realities and Deterministic Chaos - Willy RiemerMy Latest Encounter with Bernhard - Marlene Streeruwitz