As Auersbergers anticipate the arrival of a star actor, and the commencement of dinner, the author, who never once leaves the relative comfort of his 'wing-backed chair' where he sips at a glass of champagne, dismantles the hollow pretentiousness at the heart of the Austrian bourgeoisie. And the eff[...]

Thomas Bernhardin Vanhoissa mestareissa pääosassa on kaksi vanhaa miestä. Reger, musiikkikriitikko, on yli kolmenkymmenen vuoden ajan käynyt wieniläisessä museossa istumassa samalla penkillä Tintoretton maalauksen edessä. Hän on pohtinut ja parjannut mielessään nykyyhteiskuntaa, kanssaihm[...]

"Hengitys" on Thomas Bernhardin viisiosaisen autobiografisen romaanisarjan kolmas teos. Teoksessa kuvataan aikaa sairaalassa. Bernhard on sairastunut keuhkosairauteen. Bernhard käy lähellä kuolemaa, mutta hän selviää kuitenkin sairaudestaan. Bernhardin isoistä on samaan aikaan kuin Bernhard [...]

Viisiosaisen omaelämäkerrallisen teossarjan päätösosa sulkee kulttikirjailijaksi kasvaneen Bernhardin kasvuympyrän. Se on hyytävä kuvaus varhaisimmasta lapsuusajasta, joka edelsi sarjan ensimmäistä osaa Syytä: aviottoman lapsen syntymä Hollannissa, aika isovanhempien luona Wienissä ja S[...]

Roithamer has committed suicide having been driven to madness by his own frightening powers of pure thought. We witness the gradual breakdown of a genius ceaselessly compelled to correct and refine his perceptions until the only logical conclusion of the negation of his own soul.[...]

Although he is best known in the United States as a novelist, Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard has been hailed in Europe as one of the most significant and controversial of contemporary playwrights. George Steiner has predicted that the current era in German-language literature will be recognized as [...]

Thomas Bernhard (1931-1989), a literary figure of international acclaim and arguably Austria's greatest post-World War II writer, became the first of his generation to expose unrelentingly his country's pathological denial of complicity in the Holocaust. Bernhard's writings and indeed his own biogra[...]

Beloved Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard (1931 89) began his career in the early 1950s as a poet. Over the next decade, Bernhard wrote thousands of poems and published four volumes of intensely wrought and increasingly personal verse, with such titles as On Earth and in Hell, In Hora Mortis, and Unde[...]

At the behest of his surgical mentor, a young Austrian medical student poses as a law student to journey to a remote mining town in order to observe Strauch, an aging painter and brother of his mentor, without letting Strauch know his true occupation, and becomes caught up in the lives of the mad ar[...]