Thomas Bernhard

A NovelThe scientist Roithamer has dedicated the last six years of his life to ';the Cone,' an edifice of mathematically exact construction that he has erected in the center of his family's estate in honor of his beloved sister. Not long after its completion, he takes his own life. As an unnamed friend pieces togetherliterally, from...

A NovelVisceral, raw, singular, and distinctive, Frost is the story of a friendship between a young man at the beginning of his medical career and a painter who is entering his final days. A writer of world stature, Thomas Bernhard combined a searing wit and an unwavering gaze into the human condition. Frost follows an unnamed young Austrian who...

A NovelThe playwright and novelist Thomas Bernhard was one of the most widely translated and admired writers of his generation, winner of the three most coveted literary prizes in Germany. Gargoyles, one of his earliest novels, is a singular, surreal study of the nature of humanity.One morning a doctor and his son set out on daily rounds through...

A NovelFor five years, Konrad has imprisoned himself and his crippled wife in an abandoned lime works where he's conducted odd auditory experiments and prepared to write his masterwork, The Sense of Hearing. As the story begins, he's just blown the head off his wife with the Mannlicher carbine she kept strapped to her wheelchair. The murder and the...

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...