A black comedy of manners in which Bernhard portrays Viennese bourgeois society, the theatre world, and civilization itself. The narrator has spent the last 30 years in London. On a brief trip to Vienna he meets a couple he knew in his youth, who tell him of the suicide of another mutual friend.
A dark an grotesquely funny tale. Instead of the book on Felix Mendelssohn he means to write, Rudolph, a Viennese musicologist, produces a story of procrastination, failure, and despair, of small woes and grudges magnified, detailed, and dissected to the point of utter distraction. In Rudolph's life every desire and emotion has it evil twin: his ...
This collection , first published in Germany in 1978, contains 104 stories, each less than a page long, most of them about political corruption, madness, violence, and the inadequacies of language.
Visceral, raw, singular, and distinctive, "Frost" is the story of a friendship between a young man at the beginning of his medical career and a painter who is entering his final days. A writer of world stature, Thomas Bernhard combined a searing wit and an unwavering gaze into the human condition. "Frost" follows an unnamed young Austrian who ...
In lively and thorough summaries of the major works of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, Zimmermann examines such topics as techniques of characterization, conditions and conventions of stage performances, musical and metrical aspects, and the religious and political content of the plays.
Internationally acclaimed Austrian novelist, playwright, and memoirist Thomas Bernhard (1931-1989) 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 well-received verse before turning to ...
Thomas Bernhard is "one of the masters of contemporary European fiction" (George Steiner); "one of the century's most gifted writers" (New York Newsday); "a virtuoso of rancor and rage" (Bookforum). His evocations and descriptions of the constant psychic crisis brought on by modern life have earned him favourable comparison to Franz Kafka, Samuel ...
This translation of Thomas Bernhard's "Der Weltverbesserer" makes a contemporary masterpiece available to English language readers for the first time. While echoing the dramatic works of Samuel Becket, Heiner Muller and Peter Handke, "The World-Fixer" is quintessentially Bernardian and one of his most stage-worthy plays. Presenting a theme he ...
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