The novel “The Missing” (Der Untergeher, 1983; the name is difficult to translate into Russian: “The Doomed One”, “The Descending One”, “To the Bottom”) is one of Bernhard’s most famous texts, the closest to his “basic” style of writing, and to the problem-themed palette .. Nameless I-storyteller (calling myself "philosopher"), "Entering the Hotel" , Thinking , He remembers ,. Reprinted by , Resonatesin an infinite speech stream, given at the beginning in three short paragraphs, The opening of the book , like aria in a piece of music, and then, Until the end , It does not cease to flow. D.T. D.T. D.A....................................... The narrator retells and interprets the story of three friends, three fellow pianists, connected by one common theme with its endless repetitions. Bach's ingenious "Goldberg Variations", once performed by one of his friends, the great pianist Glenn Gould, while played so that the unattainable level of this game suppresses two of his other Mozarteum comrades, deprives them of any opportunity to remain in the musical profession. (A. Whitebeards. Thomas Bernhard: Twenty Years Later