Thomas Bernhard (19311989) was one of the world-famous Austrian authors of the last 20th century. Almost every of his works, and the pen of the writer owns numerous novels and plays, poems and stories, caused a noisy, sometimes with a touch of scandal, response when it appeared. The reason for this is polemical in relation to the established ideas and modern myths, the peculiarity of the form, which the reader does not so much enjoy as “masters”. The novel Sturge (1963), in the center of which is a person with altered consciousness, touches on a complex of both purely Austrian and universally significant problems. This is a multi-layered narrative about human suffering, about the dignity of the individual, about the meaning and meaninglessness of history. "Stezha" - the first and significant success of the writer .