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Thomas Bernhard
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…
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Roithamer has committed suicide having been driven to madness by his own frightening powers of pure thought. This work talks about the gradual breakdown of a genius ceaselessly compelled to…
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Playwright, novelist, and poet Thomas Bernhard (1931-1989) gives us one of his most darkly comic works. A series of parable-like anecdotes–some drawn from newspaper reports, some from conversation, some even…
Born in 1931, the illegitimate child of an abandoned mother, Thomas Bernhard was brought up by an eccentric grandmother and adored grandfather. He ran away from home at 15 and…
The 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…
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The narrator, a scientist working on antibodies and suffering from emotional and mental illness, meets a Persian woman, the companion of a Swiss engineer, at an office in rural Austria…
Thomas Bernhard combined a searing wit and an unwavering gaze\ninto the human condition. His debut novel, Frost, marked the\nbeginning of one of the century’s most provocative literary\ncareers.
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Originally published in German as Der Untergeher by Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt, 1983; This translation originally published in hardcover … 1991, and subsequently in trade paperback … in 1993 –T.p. verso.
