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Teatro V: Il Presidente - Il teatrante - Elisabetta II

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Le pièce di questo quinto volume sono centrate su tre personaggi che più bernhardiani non potrebbero essere: l’uomo politico amorale in vacanza con la sua amante-attrice nel Portogallo della dittatura (Il Presidente, 1975); il drammaturgo fallito e megalomane, che schiavizza la sua famiglia costringendola a recitare un’assurda commedia nei più sperduti paesi di campagna (Il teatrante, 1984); il grande industriale delle armi, incattivito dalla vecchiaia e dalla sedia a rotelle a cui è costretto, circondato da una folla di adulatori che disprezza (Elisabetta II, 1987). Tre personaggi ridicoli e grotteschi, forse anche un po’ ripugnanti, che attraversano ognuno a suo modo i temi che hanno da sempre ossessionato Bernhard: il potere, l’arte (in particolare quella legata al teatro) e l’odio come grande motore del mondo. Elisabetta II è il penultimo testo di Bernhard rappresentato a teatro (allo Schiller Theater di Berlino) vivo l’autore. Tra le recenti messe in scena italiane, ricordiamo un Teatrante con Franco Branciaroli e una Elisabetta II con Roberto Herlitzka.

320 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1982

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Thomas Bernhard

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Thomas Bernhard was an Austrian writer who ranks among the most distinguished German-speaking writers of the second half of the 20th century.

Although internationally he’s most acclaimed because of his novels, he was also a prolific playwright. His characters are often at work on a lifetime and never-ending major project while they deal with themes such as suicide, madness and obsession, and, as Bernhard did, a love-hate relationship with Austria. His prose is tumultuous but sober at the same time, philosophic by turns, with a musical cadence and plenty of black humor.

He started publishing in the year 1963 with the novel Frost. His last published work, appearing in the year 1986, was Extinction. Some of his best-known works include The Loser (about a student’s fictionalized relationship with the pianist Glenn Gould), Wittgenstein’s Nephew, and Woodcutters.

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