Thomas Bernhard

Glenn Gould, Wertheimer et le narrateur se sont rencontrés, il y a vingt ans, au Mozarteum de Salzbourg, pour y suivre les cours d'Horowitz. D'emblée, Gould s'est imposé comme musicien génial, tandis que ses deux comparses, écrasés par la personnalité du pianiste, ont perdu toute illusion d'une carrière de virtuose. …

The Lime Works is a novel by Thomas Bernhard, first published in German in 1970. It’s a complex surrealist work, where the creativity and resourcefulness of a destructive personality is marshalled against itself in a nightmarish narration.

The work of late Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard was no one's idea of an uplifting read. Given to writing mostly dense, bleak, darkly comic, one-paragraph novels such as The Loser, Bernhard has rarely received the audience he deserves. The Voice Imitator, while unlikely to change this basic fact, does give us …