Thomas Bernhard

Instead of the book he's meant to write, Rudolph, a Viennese musicologist, produces this tale of procrastination, failure, and despair, a dark and grotesquely funny story of small woes writ large and profound horrors detailed and rehearsed to the point of distraction."Certain books—few—assert literary importance …

Gargoyles is one of Thomas Bernhard’s earliest novels, which made the author known both nationally and internationally. Originally published in German in 1967, it’s a kaleidoscopic work, considered by critics his most disquieting and nihilistic.

Correction is a novel by Thomas Bernhard, originally published in German in 1975, and first published in English translation in 1979 by Alfred A. Knopf. Correction’s set is a garret in the middle of an Austrian forest, described by the narrator as the "thought dungeon" in which the main character, Roithamer, will …

Wymazywanie. Rozpad – – to powieść austriackiego pisarza Thomasa Bernharda. Została opublikowana w 1986 roku i jest ostatnim dziełem prozatorskim autora. Jest to jego drugi co do wielkości utwór, zaraz za tekstem Schwarzach St. Veit. W Polsce książka stała się znana szerszym kręgom odbiorców w 2001 roku kiedy sztukę …

It 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, …

Woodcutters is a novel by Thomas Bernhard, also published in 1985 in another English translation under the title Cutting Timber: An Irritation, and originally published in German in 1984. Second in a trilogy covering the Arts, this one relates to the theatre and created quite an uproar in Austria, where it was banned …

Dawni mistrzowie. Komedia – to powieść austriackiego pisarza Thomasa Bernharda, która ukazała się w 1985 roku. Nazwa książki to aluzja do malarzy, których dzieła są wystawiane w Muzeum Historii Sztuki w Wiedniu, a ich błędy są wytykane przez 82 letniego protagonistę Regera.

Thomas 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 …