Thomas Bernhard, Author Alfred A. Knopf $17.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-394-56376-3
A ``partly autobiographical novel'' with the subtitle ``A Friendship,'' Bernhard's ( Woodcutters , The Lime Works ) 1984 work delineates the unusual relationship between the narrator, a writer not unlike Bernhard, and the brilliant but mad nephew of
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Thomas Bernhard, Author Alfred A. Knopf $19.95 (340p) ISBN 978-0-394-54707-7
For all its occasional shrillness and repetitiousness, and its denunciations of ""society,'' ``community'' and ``education'' in terms of passionate generality, this unparagraphed outpouring of reflection and recollected experience by Austria's most...
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Thomas Bernhard, Author Alfred A. Knopf $15.95 (181p) ISBN 978-0-394-55152-4
Remaining in his present London digs would have been a blessing compared to wintering in his native Vienna, complains the narrator of the latest book by the celebrated Austrian novelist (Gathering Evidence). The narrator, a writer, runs into the...
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Thomas Bernhard, Author, Jack Dawson, Translator Vintage Books USA $10 (189p) ISBN 978-0-679-74179-4
The late Austrian novelist meditates on Glenn Gould, the Canadian virtuoso pianist, in this fictive memoir of an imaginary friendship between Gould and the narrator. (June) Also forthcoming from Vintage International in June is Gathering Evidence ($1
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Thomas Bernhard, trans. from the German by Carol Brown Janeway, Knopf, $22 (144p) ISBN 978-0-307-27287-7-
Austrian novelist and playwright Bernhard (1931–1989) continues to upset the applecart in this chip-on-the-shoulder recounting of nine literary prizes he was awarded and sidestepped or rejected with gusto except when cash was involved. Most of the...
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Thomas Bernhard, Author, Michael Hofmann, Translator , trans. from the German by Michael Hofmann. Knopf $25.95 (341p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4066-7
A student's increasingly erratic dispatches over 27 days comprise this obsessive first novel by Bernhard (1931–1989), published to European acclaim in 1963. An unnamed medical student is sent from Vienna by his supervisor, an eminent...
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Thomas Bernhard, Author, Ewald Osers, Translator, Thomas Osers, Translator University of Chicago Press $14 (140p) ISBN 978-0-226-04390-6
Bernhard's (1931-89) reputation as one of the most important voices of post-WW II Central Europe is bolstered mightily by these two short but dense novels. Yes, first published in Austria in 1978, is a monologue by an unnamed narrator, a scientist...
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Thomas Bernhard, Author, Kenneth J. Northcott, Translator, Jessica Helfand, Designed by University of Chicago Press $20 (104p) ISBN 978-0-226-04401-9
Less than half of the work of this remarkable Austrian novelist, playwright and critic (Wittgenstein's Nephew) has been translated into English, but these books have won him a loyal following here. Originally published in Austria in the 1970s, this...
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Thomas Bernhard, Author, David McLintock, Translator University of Chicago Press $17.5 (188p) ISBN 978-0-226-04396-8
The narrator of this story, which is told in a demanding, nonstop stream of consciousness, is a writer who finds himself roped into a dinner party thrown by people he has avoided for 20 years. Spurning conversation, he reviews his grievances against
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Thomas Bernhard, Author, David McLintock, Translator Alfred A. Knopf $24 (325p) ISBN 978-0-394-57253-6
Franz-Josef Murau, the ``reserve heir'' to Wolfsegg manor, savages his native Austria in this caustic fictional memoir distinguished by the late Bernhard's (The Loser) hallmark unparagraphed invective and italicized loathing. In the novel's first...
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