The playwright and novelist Thomas Bernhard was one of the most widely translated and admired writers of his generation, winner of the three most coveted ...

Instead of the book he’s meant to write, Rudolph, a Viennese musicologist, produces this dark and grotesquely funny account of small woes writ large, of p...

Fiercely observed, often hilarious, and “reminiscent of Ibsen and Strindberg” (The New York Times Book Review), this exquisitely controversial novel was i...

A gathering of brilliant and viciously funny recollections from one of the twentieth century’s most famous literary enfants terribles.Written in 1980 but ...

Thomas Bernhard was one of the most original writers of the twentieth century. His formal innovation ranks with Beckett and Kafka, his outrageously cantan...

The novel Concrete was written by Thomas Bernhard (1931-1989) in 1982 in one go: like the narrator, the author begins work on the manuscript in the winter in...

1967. In different buildings of a Vienna hospital, two men lie bedridden. The narrator, named Thomas Bernhard, is stricken with a lung disease; his friend Pa...

The collection of prose texts “The Voice Imitator” (1978) stands apart in the literary heritage of T. Bernhard. When it appeared, the book was perceived as s...

The novel “The Lost” (Der Untergeher, 1983; the title is difficult to translate into Russian: “Doomed”, “Descent”, “To the Bottom”) is one of Bernhard’s most...