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.
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