The Cheap-Eaters
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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 when, one day, he doesn’t go to Alte Esche but to Alte Eiche instead and realises that they constitute the focal piece of his study on physiognomics entitled The Cheap-Eaters. The narrator – a bank clerk and former school friend of Koller’s – tries to hint at the vague insinuations Koller...
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 when, one day, he doesn’t go to Alte Esche but to Alte Eiche instead and realises that they constitute the focal piece of his study on physiognomics entitled The Cheap-Eaters. The narrator – a bank clerk and former school friend of Koller’s – tries to hint at the vague insinuations Koller makes towards him about the content of this study.
»Reading Bernhard after negotiating the subtler energies of much contemporary fiction is like someone throwing a window open in a small, overheated room only for a gale to rush in. His sentences are not compact, and they are not ornate. They are overloaded but never overwrought. They do not try to suggest hidden depths or hint at greater mystery.« Missouri Williams, The Nation
»[...] this story of obsession and philosophical fixation is [...] an utter joy to read, its characters and histories warily circling one another in hyperfocused language. The novel’s balance of a unique approach to prose with a memorable structural kick at the end makes for a thoroughly haunting read.« Tobias Carroll, Words Without Borders
»Each of Bernhard’s works is a great storehouse of society’s abuses, both real and imagined. [...] Bernhard’s negations deform the familiar features of the realist novel. Plot, description, growth, and resolution are crushed by the tidal forces of contempt. But what at first blush seems a voice of hopeless constriction is in practice magnificently open and baroque.« Dustin Illingworth, The Baffler
»Reading Bernhard after negotiating the subtler energies of much contemporary fiction is like someone throwing a window open in a small, overheated room only for a gale to rush in. His sentences are not compact, and they are not ornate. They are overloaded but never overwrought. They do not try to suggest hidden depths or hint at greater mystery.« Missouri Williams, The Nation...
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Thomas Bernhard
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 published 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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The Public Bernhard
On the Trail of the Truth
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Goethe Dies
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The Correspondence
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A Meeting
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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Extinction
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Old Masters
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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Woodcutters
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The Loser
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Concrete
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Wittgenstein’s Nephew
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Yes
»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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Correction
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Walking
»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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The Lime Works
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Gargoyles
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Frost
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