
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. …

Maîtres anciens sous-titré Comédie est un roman autrichien de Thomas Bernhard publié le 25 juillet 1985 et paru en français le 22 septembre 1988 aux éditions Gallimard. Ce roman a reçu la même année le prix Médicis étranger.

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 …

En 1967, le narrateur commence son séjour à l'hôpital de pneumophtisiologie de la Baumgartnerhöhe (en Autriche), juste à côté de l'hôpital psychiatrique du Steinhof, où Paul Wittgenstein, le neveu du célèbre philosophe, est interné. Cette coïncidence est le prétexte à l'évocation de cet homme original, génial fou …

Extinction is the last of Thomas Bernhard’s novels. It was originally published in German in 1986.

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 …

Perturbation est le troisième roman de Thomas Bernhard paru en 1967. Avec cette œuvre Bernhard consolida sa notoriété en Autriche et en Allemagne et commença à être traduit à l'étranger.

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 …

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 …