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...
Thomas Bernhard is widely considered to be one of the most important German playwrights in the post-war era. Highly acclaimed, he has written over twenty plays and novels and gained a reputation as one of Austriaâs most controversial...
Der Erzähler in dem zuerst 1983 publizierten Werk wohnt in Madrid und schreibt eine Arbeit über den kanadischen Pianisten Glenn Gould, den wichtigsten Klaviervirtuosen des Jahrhunderts, der, auf dem Gipfel seiner Kunst, aufhörte zu spielen....
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, one of his earliest novels, is a singular, surreal study of...
Thomas Bernhard (1931â1989) has been compared to Kafka and Beckett, and critics have ranked his novels among the masterpieces of the twentieth century. But in fact he began his career in the 1950s as a poet, publishing three books of...