Thomas Bernhard

Zaburzenie, jedna z wczesnych powieści Thomasa Bernharda (1931-1989), wydana w 1969 roku, zaliczana jest dziś do szczytowych osiągnięć wielkiego austriackiego pisarza. Obecne są już w niej wszystkie obsesyjnie nawracające motywy jego twórczości związane z totalną krytyką rzeczywistości powojennej Austrii. Bernhard kieruje swój atak przeciw jej...

A NovelThomas Bernhard was one of the most original writers of the twentieth century. His formal innovation ranks with Beckett and Kafka, his outrageously cantankerous voice recalls Dostoevsky, but his gift for lacerating, lyrical, provocative prose is incomparably his own.One of Bernhard's most acclaimed novels, The Loser centers on a...

A NovelIt is 1967. In separate wings of a Viennese hospital, two men lie bedridden. The narrator, named Thomas Bernhard, is stricken with a lung ailment; his friend Paul, nephew of the celebrated philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, is suffering from one of his periodic bouts of madness. As their once-casual friendship quickens, these two eccentric men...

A NovelFrom the late Thomas Bernhard, arguably Austria's most influential novelist of the postwar period, and one of the greatest artists in all twentieth-century literature in the German language, his magnum opus.Extinction, Bernhard's last work of fiction, takes the form of the autobiographical testimony of Franz-Josef Murau, the...

Instead of the book he's meant to write, Rudolph, a Viennese musicologist, produces this dark and grotesquely funny account of small woes writ large, of profound horrors detailed and rehearsed to the point of distraction. We learn of Rudolph's sister, whose help he invites, then reviles as malevolent meddling; his ';really...

Fiercely observed, often hilarious, and ';reminiscent of Ibsen and Strindberg' (The New York Times Book Review), this exquisitely controversial novel was initially banned in its author's homeland.A searing portrayal of Vienna's bourgeoisie, it begins with the arrival of an unnamed writer at an ';artistic dinner' hosted...