Gitta Honegger
Autore di Thomas Bernhard: The Making of an Austrian
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Gitta Honegger served for ten years as resident dramaturg of the Yale Repertory Theatre and taught at the Yale School of Drama. She was chair of the Drama Department at the Catholic University of America and is currently a professor in the Department of Languages and Literatures at Arizona State mostra altro University. mostra meno
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That said, it would be nice if someone would a) write a good one, or b) even translate one from German. Because this is a hot mess. If you want proof of that, consider that Honegger used to work at Yale; it's published by Yale; and the only positive text they could find for a blurb was by... a professor at Yale.
I imagine this is how this book made it into the world:
i) Honegger, who works on drama and theatre, had some interesting ideas about Bernhard as dramatist.
ii) An editor at Yale got wind of this, and decided that instead of an academic monograph about Bernhard's theatrical works, Honegger should write a biography.
iii) Honegger, who knows about Bernhard's life, thinks that's a great idea, because Bernhard's life is *hand fucking made* for biography. Great origin story, great trauma, weird relationships, great success, great posthumous fun.
iv) The editor who decided that Honegger should write a biography proceeds to go on holiday. Honegger freaks out, because she doesn't know how to write a biography. Editor doesn't care, his/her work is just throwing out good ideas, not helping authors.
v) Book is published as a hot mess.
What kind of mess? The repetitive, narrative-less, 'thematic chaptered', let's-write-a-journal-article-then-stretch-it-out-into-a-book-and-stick-in-a-few-biographical-details-and-a-whole-bunch-of-plot-summaries-so-we-can-market-it-as-a-biography kind. There's no sense here that you might like to tell us about Bernhard's writing or life in, you know, order. The argument is perfectly good (Bernhard 'stages' his life; English majors will be familiar with this from a little period we like to call "the Renaissance"), but not at all interesting compared to, for instance, his tuberculosis, his novels, his weird relationships with women, his *bonkers* family, his hatred for almost everyone, etc etc...
So, thanks to Honegger, but we'd all be better off if she wrote a good book about his drama (I'm sure she could), and someone else wrote a good biography.… (altro)