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This hitherto unpublished comedic work shows Bernhard at the very top of his art: invective, flabbergasted, swearing and ridiculing. Thomas Bernhard quarrels with the world in general, the cultural world in particular, and most especially, with himself.
This work, which Bernhard finished in 1980, was published for the first time in February 2009 to commemorate the 20th anniversary of his death. The text is divided into nine chapters and an appendix. Bernhard irately reminisces and takes stock of the literary prizes that were awarded to him. The highly gifted comedian describes in detail the tragedies the winning of each of his literary awards proved to be. Whether it was the Bremer Literature Prize, the Austrian State Prize, the Grillparzer Prize, or the Georg Büchner Prize, they did the honour of causing scandals each and every time. For the author, the accompanying prize money is also an excuse to throw oneself into adventure.
Grumbling about all of humanity and shaking his head at himself as well, Thomas Bernhard paints a self-portrait of the author as prize- (and prize money) recipient. This self-portrait begins where his previously published autobiography left off – with the early recognition he received for his first novel – and closes with a resignation from the German Academy for Language and Literature.
Thomas Bernhard was born in Heerlen, the Netherlands, in 1931 and died in Gmunden, Austria, in 1989. He is one of the most important Austrian writers and was awarded the Büchner Prize (1970) and the Grimme Prize (1972), among many other accolades. Suhrkamp Verlag is in the process of publishing Thomas Bernhard's collected works in 22 volumes.
Thomas Bernhard was born in Heerlen, the Netherlands, in 1931 and died in Gmunden, Austria, in 1989. He is one of the most important Austrian...
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Thomas Bernhard rarely agreed to interviews in front of a camera. He did, however, appreciate the television journalist Krista Fleischmann as a sensitive interlocutor, with whom he produced two...
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Old Masters 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...
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For years, the four cheap-eaters have been eating at a certain Viennese public kitchen, from Monday to Friday, always the cheapest meals. They become the focus of Koller’s scientific attention...
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»Yes«, answers the Persian woman, the protagonist of Thomas Bernhard’s novel published in 1978, to the narrator’s question of whether is going to kill herself one day – and laughs.
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»A powerful, compact novella, Walking provides a perfect introduction to the absurd, dark, and uncommonly comic world of Bernhard, showing a preoccupation with themes —...
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