'Probably nothing exists that would prepare one for Bernhard's machined vehemence, though once you've read one, you perhaps start to crave the bitter taste and the savage not-quite-humour .. Genius.' - Michael Hofmann
Old Masters (1985) is Thomas Bernhard's devilishly funny story about the friendship between two old men. For over thirty years Reger, a music critic, has sat on the same bench in front of a Tintoretto painting in a Viennese museum, thinking and railing...
Save Yourself if You Can is a collection of six plays that span the entirety of Thomas Bernhard's career as a dramatist. The plays collected in this long-awaited addition to Bernhard's oeuvre in English-- The Ignoramus and the Madman , The Celebrities...
Thomas Bernhard is âone of the masters of contemporary European fictionâ (George Steiner); âone of the centuryâs most gifted writersâ ( Newsday ); â...
The first English translation of the earliest poetry of brilliant and disruptive Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard, widely considered one of the most innovative and original authors of the twentieth century and often associated with fellow mavericks Beckett...
In dem vor kurzem veröffentlichten Interview mit Peter Hamm antwortet Thomas Bernhard auf die Frage »Sind Sie gerne böse?« sinngemäß: Ja, aber häufig könne er nicht so böse sein, wie er wirklich wolle. Dabei...