O EXAGERO QUE PRECEDE O REAL: UMA RESENHA DE PRAÇA DOS HERÓIS, DE THOMAS BERNHARD

Abstract

Thomas Bernhard's Heroes' Square was launched in the late 1980s, but remains more relevant than ever. In short, the play depicts the suicide of a professor who threw himself from his window in Heroes' Square in Vienna. Through an aesthetic guided by purposeful hyperbole, Bernhard's objective is clear: to show, with the exaggeration of fiction, that fascism did not die in 1945. And, more than that, how the phenomenon of negation and revisionism of the participation of the perpetrators end up facilitating their rise in new clothes. This review discusses Bernhard's work, in dialogue with other works in the political literature subgenre, in light of these issues. The intention is to show, through a discussion of fiction, the danger of lightly interpreting Nazi-fascism as a phenomenon limited to the beginning of the 20th century.