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Schweigen des Verstummten. Stille Rebellion und aggressive Gehorsamkeit in Thomas Bernhards Drama ›Ein Fest für Boris‹.

    Reika Hane

Sprachkunst Jahrgang XLII/2011, 1. Halbband, pp. 29-48, 2014/01/15

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Jahrgang XLII/2011 1.Halbband

doi: 10.1553/spk42_1s29

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Abstract

Thomas Bernhard’s drama ›Ein Fest für Boris‹ contrasts the silence of the servant with the excessive speech of the mistress who commands her to be silent. Starting from the distinction between an ‘act of silence’ and silence as a condition of not being able to speak, this article analyzes the text of the drama in order to investigate possibilities and impossibilities of subjective (self-)empowerment through an ‘act of silence’ in a situation of coerced speechlessness.