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My Prizes: An Accounting by Professor Thomas Bernhard
Category: Biography Memoir
A gathering of brilliant and viciously funny recollections from one of the twentieth century's most famous literary enfants terribles. Written in 1980 but published here for the first time, these texts tell the story of the various farces that developed around the literary prizes Thomas Bernhard receive ...Show more
Old Masters by Thomas Bernhard
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'I hate walking, he says, it seems so pointless to me. I walk, and while I am walking I keep thinking how I hate walking' Old Masters (1985) is Thomas Bernhard's devilishly funny story about the friendship between two old men. For over thirty years Reger, a music critic, has sat on the same bench in fro ...Show more
Old Masters by BERNHARD THOMAS
Category: Classic Fiction
"Old Masters (1985)" is Thomas Bernhard's devilishly funny story about the friendship between two old men. For over thirty years Reger, a music critic, has sat on the same bench in front of a Tintoretto painting in a Viennese museum, thinking and railing against contemporary society, his fellow men, art ...Show more
Old Masters: A Comedy by Thomas Bernhard
Category: Classics | Series: Phoenix Fiction Ser.
In this exuberantly satirical novel, the tutor Atzbacher has been summoned by his friend Reger to meet him in a Viennese museum. While Reger gazes at a Tintoretto portrait, Atzbacher--who fears Reger's plans to kill himself--gives us a portrait of the musicologist: his wisdom, his devotion to his wife, ...Show more
Old Masters: A Comedy by Thomas Bernhard
Category: Fiction | Series: The\German List Ser.
Thomas Bernhard's Old Masters has been called his "most enjoyable novel" by the New York Review of Books. It's a wild satire that takes place almost entirely in front of Tintoretto's White-Bearded Man, on display in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, as two typically Viennese pedants (serving as alter egos f ...Show more
Prose by Thomas Bernhard; Martin Chalmers (Translator)
Category: Fiction | Series: Seagull World Literature Ser.
"His manner of speaking, like that of all the subordinated, excluded, was awkward, like a body full of wounds, into which at any time anyone can strew salt, yet so insistent, that it is painful to listen to him," from The Carpenter The Austrian playwright, novelist, and poet Thomas Bernhard (1931-89) i ...Show more
Prose by Thomas Bernhard; Martin Chalmers (Translator)
Category: Fiction | Series: The\German List Ser.
"His manner of speaking, like that of all the subordinated, excluded, was awkward, like a body full of wounds, into which at any time anyone can strew salt, yet so insistent, that it is painful to listen to him," from The CarpenterThe Austrian playwright, novelist, and poet Thomas Bernhard (1931-89) is ...Show more
The Lime Works by Thomas Bernhard
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International (Paperback)
For five years, Konrad has imprisoned himself and his crippled wife in an abandoned lime works where he's conducted odd auditory experiments and prepared to write his masterwork, "The Sense of Hearing." As the story begins, he's just blown the head off his wife with the Mannlicher carbine she kept strap ...Show more
The Loser by Thomas Bernhard
Category: Fiction
'When indefatigable obsession looms large as it does in Thomas Bernhard (and his revered precursor Kafka) the result for the reader is a strange exhilaration and the thrall at being admitted into the mind of a maddened, magical genius.' - Edna O'Brien Mid-century Austria. Three aspiring concert pianist ...Show more
The Rest Is Slander - Five Stories by Thomas Bernhard; Douglas Robertson (Translator)
Category: Short Stories | Series: The\German List Ser.
A collection of previously untranslated stories from a master of twentieth-century Austrian literature, Thomas Bernhard. "The cold increases with the clarity," said Thomas Bernhard while accepting a major literary prize in 1965. That clarity was the postwar realization that the West's last remaining cu ...Show more
The Voice Imitator by Thomas Bernhard
Category: Fiction
The Austrian playwright, novelist, and poet Thomas Bernhard (1931-89) is acknowledged as among the major writers of our times. At once pessimistic and exhilarating, Bernhard's work depicts the corruption of the modern world, the dynamics of totalitarianism, and the interplay of reality and appearance.In ...Show more