The novel "Beton" was written by Thomas Bernhard (1931-1989) in 1982 in one breath: like the narrator, the author begins work on the manuscript in winter in Austria and completes in spring in Palma de Mallorca. Scattered on the text transparent autobiographical hints , And fear is fear, fear is fear, fear is fear, fear is fear, fear is fear, fear is fear. Freezing , Fear of a clean slate) and obscuring others (poverty, Proximity , He turned the confession of a sarcoidosis patient hero into a truly baroque farce. in which death and melancholy converge in the last dance. One can read this non-stop narcissistic speech as a confession on the couch of a psychoanalyst, as a typical Austrian logical-philosophical monodrama, a family novel of neurotics or a bourgeois story of the death of one family, the main theme still remains music. A book about the impossibility of writing a book about the composer Mendelssohn - Bernhard's musical offering to modernism, putting him on a par with the masters of the "unspeakable" Beckett, Pessoa, Celn, Bachman . In PDF A4 format, the publishing layout of the book is saved.