TALK: Accepting Imitations: Thomas
Bernhard & Glenn Gould
Thomas Cousineau (Washington College, Maryland)
Friday, March 11 / 3:00 PM / Free
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB, 6th floor
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In this talk, Thomas Cousineau will discuss the Austrian
novelist and playwright Thomas Bernhard, focusing particularly
on the eerie presence of Glenn Gould in Bernhard’s
short masterpiece, The Loser. Bernhard, referred to
by Italo Calvino as “the greatest writer in the
world,” is frequently ranked alongside Kafka and
Beckett. Thomas Cousineau is Professor of English at
Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland. The author
of Waiting for Godot: Form in Movement, After the Final
No: Samuel Beckett’s Trilogy, and Ritual Unbound:
Reading Sacrifice in Modernist Fiction, he is currently
completing Accepting Limitations: the novels of Thomas
Bernhard.
Presented by the IHC Modernism Research Focus Group.
