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An Isolation

The forth volume of Lukas Kummer‘s highly praised graphic novel series based on Thomas Bernhard's “Autobiographische Schriften”.

His admission into the lung sanatorium Grafenhof heralded the start of a new chapter in the young Thomas Bernhard’s tale of suffering. In the isolation of the sanatorium he was at the mercy of the doctors, the nursing staff, his fellow patients and above all, himself and his will. In this hopelessness he practised revolt. It is his self-affirmation as a writer, the friendship with a musician, and singing which are stirring his will to survive and give him strength. In the end, Thomas Bernhard escapes the isolation of the lung sanatorium which is seems in Lukas Kummer’s illustrations like the coldest circle of hell, and emerges as the person we know today: one of the greatest writers of the 20th century.

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112 pages
format:170 x 240
ISBN: 9783701717736
Release date: 11.04.2023

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Authors
Thomas Bernhard

Thomas Bernhard was born on the 9th of February, 1931 in Heerlen, Netherlands, and dies on 12th of February 1989 in Gmunden, Upper Austria.1952-1957 he studied Music and Acting at the Akademie Mozarteum Salzburg, since 1957 he lived as a freelance author. He has received some of the most prestigious literature prizes and awards, among them the Österreichischer Staatspreis 1967 and the Georg-Büchner-Preis 1970, and is considered as one of the most important german language authors of his century.

Lukas Kummer (Illustrated by)

was born in Innsbruck in 1988. He moved to Kassel in 2007 to study illustration and graphic arts. From 2009 to 2015 he worked as an illustrator and designer for the Mechanical Institute of Kassel University while continuing his studies. He graduated in 2014 and spent the following year with Hendrik Dorgathen as a master student. Lukas Kummer is a freelance illustrator and cartoonist. He has been published in various magazines and fanzines. His first graphic novel “Die Verwerfung” appeared in 2015, followed by “Die Gotteskrieger” in 2017.

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Es ist ein Meisterwerk eigenen Rechts, das hier entsteht, und man kann nur bedauern, dass Kummer mit „Ein Kind“ wohl aufhören wird, Bernhard zu zeichnen, weil Residenz dann seinen Rechtevorrat erschöpft hat.
[Quelle: Andreas Platthaus, FAZ]

(...) Lukas Kummer arbeitet sich seit 2015 an Bernhards Werk ab – und hat dafür eine kongeniale, serielle Erzählweise gefunden. In sich minimal variierenden Bildern wird da von Monotonie, Isolation und Entfremdung erzählt.
[Quelle: Karin Cerny, PROFIL]

(...) setzt Kummer nicht darauf, Humanismus mit Lakonie zu verbinden, sondern betont die Leidensgeschichte in ihrer Abgeschiedenheit und scheinbaren Ausweglosigkeit. Nur zwischendurch blitzt ein wenig Boshaftigkeit auf, wenn etwa über große und kleine, geniale und mittelmäßige Künstler und Schriftsteller des Landes sinniert wird - und die Dargestellten Wiedererkennungswert bekommen, prominente Zeitgenossen inklusive. Ansonsten ist die Atmosphäre von Spitalsräumen, Kirchenschiffen und Alpenpanoramen durchaus beängstigend.
[Quelle: APA]

Seine Bilder in Grau, Weiß und Schwarz passen sich dem Rhythmus der Sprache an. Auf den ersten Blick zeigen sie unaufgeregt, was erzählt wird. Auf den zweiten offenbart sich dann das ganze Bernhardsche Drama.
[Quelle: MERKUR]

Zwar sind die im Buch geschilderten Nachkriegszustände extrem. Sie sind aber gleichwohl insoweit aktuell, dass sie eine Klassenmedizin zeigen, in denen nur der Selbstzahler eine ausreichende Menge an Medizin erhält. Zur Gesundung braucht es mehr als ein Krankenhaus, es braucht auch Wohlbefinden, seelische Erbauung und menschliche Wärme. Dies wird mit Händen greifbar durch die erneut sehr gelungene Kombination aus Bernhards Text und Kummers Bildern dieser berührenden Graphic Novel.
[Quelle: Anka Willamowius, BUCH-LADY.DE]

Kummer fängt wie in den vorangegangen Bänden die Essenz des Bernhard-Textes perfekt ein. Das Buch bzw. die ganze Serie kann jedem „Bernhardianer“, aber auch jedem Novizen nur wärmstens ans Herz gelegt werden.
[Quelle: Oliver Herzig, BÜCHER BÜCHER BÜCHER]

Durch die furchtbar genialen Zeichnungen von Lukas Kummer findet man Zugang zum Werk des großen Grantlers.
[Quelle: Ronny Putzke, KULTUREXPRESSO]

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