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Victor Halfwit - A Winter's Tale by Thomas Bernhard
Category: Fiction
Description: One night in the middle of winter, as deep snow covers the mountains and forests of Austria, a doctor is crossing a ridge from Traich to Foding to see a patient. He stumbles over a body in the darkness and fears it is a corpse. But it's not a corpse at all - in fact, it's wooden-legged Vict ...Show more
Walking - A Novella by Thomas Bernhard; Kenneth J. Northcott (Translator); Brian Evenson (Foreword by)
Category: Fiction
Thomas Bernhard is "one of the masters of contemporary European fiction" (George Steiner); "one of the century's most gifted writers" (Newsday); "a virtuoso of rancor and rage" (Bookforum). And although he is favorably compared with Franz Kafka, Samuel Beckett, and Robert Musil, it is only in recent yea ...Show more
Wittgenstein's Nephew: A Friendship by Professor Thomas Bernhard
Category: Fiction
It is 1967, in a Viennese hospital. In separate wards, two men lie bedridden: the narrator, named Thomas Bernhard, is stricken with a lung ailment; his friend Paul, nephew of the celebrated philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, is suffering from one of his periodic bouts of madness. Beginning with his memory ...Show more
Wittgenstein's Nephew - A Friendship by Thomas Bernhard
Category: Fiction
'Furious, obsessive, scathing, absolutely hilarious and oddly beautiful.' - Claire Messud It is 1967. Two men lie bedridden in separate wings of a Viennese hospital. The narrator, Thomas Bernhard, is stricken with a lung ailment; his friend Paul, nephew of Ludwig Wittgenstein, is suffering from one of ...Show more
Woodcutters by Thomas Bernhard
Category: Classics
Fiercely observed, often hilarious, and reminiscent of Ibsen and Strindberg (The New York Times Book Review), this exquisitely controversial novel was initially banned in its author s homeland. A searing portrayal of Vienna s bourgeoisie, it begins with the arrival of an unnamed writer at an artistic di ...Show more
Woodcutters by Thomas Bernhard
Category: Fiction
'Penetrating and satirical ... Superbly distinctive and provocative.' - New York Times An unnamed writer arrives at an 'artistic dinner' hosted by a composer and his society wife: a couple he once admired, but has now come to detest. They have been brought together by their friend Joana's suicide, but ...Show more
Woodcutters by Thomas Bernhard
Category: Fiction
Thomas Bernhard, one of the most distinct, celebrated, and perverse of 20th century writers, took his own life in 1989. Perhaps the greatest Austrian writer of the 20th century, Bernhard's vision in novels like "Woodcutters" was relentlessly bleak and comically nihilistic. His prose is torrential and hi ...Show more