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Article: The Rhetoric of National Dissent in Thomas Bernhard, Peter Handke, and Elfriede Jelinek.(Book Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- July 1, 2003
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The Rhetoric of National Dissent in Thomas Bernhard, Peter Handke, and Elfriede Jelinek. By MATTHIAS KONZETT. Rochester, NY: Camden House. 2000. xii+164 pp. $55; 35 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-57113-204-x (hbk).
The main body of Matthias Konzett's book consists of three individual chapters on these major figures in contemporary German literature, but the book is also framed with a useful introduction entitled' Consensus and Dissent in Contemporary Austrian Literature' and a concluding chapter on the 'Emergence of Recent Austrian Jewish Writing'. To say that Bernhard, Handke, and Jelinek have 'dominated the literary scene of Austria and Germany during the past three ...