The Public Bernhard

Works in 22 Volumes: Volume 22. Edited by Wolfram Bayer, Martin Huber and Manfred Mittermayer
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The Public Bernhard / Werke in 22 Bänden
Works in 22 Volumes: Volume 22. Edited by Wolfram Bayer, Martin Huber and Manfred Mittermayer
All of Thomas Bernhard’s public statements collected in two volumes
This edition presents the first comprehensive collection of all texts that Thomas Bernhard wrote for publication in the media between 1950 and 1989 – from his court reports from Salzburg in the fifties to the tirades against God and the rest of the world published in the sixties and seventies, to the interviews about his play Heldenplatz conducted shortly before his death.


This edition presents the first comprehensive collection of all texts that Thomas Bernhard wrote for publication in the media between 1950 and 1989 – from his court reports from Salzburg in the fifties to the tirades against God and the rest of the world published in the sixties and seventies, to the interviews about his play Heldenplatz conducted shortly before his death.


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OTHER PUBLICATIONS

On the Trail of the Truth
Year of Publication: 2010
Thomas BernhardYear of Publication: 2010
Thomas Bernhard and the public sphere: scarcely a single utterance that didn’t provoke a scandal. This volume presents a selection of Bernhard’s most important pieces of journalism, letters...
Rights sold to:

Spanish world rights (Alianza), Brazilian Portuguese rights (Todavia), France (Gallimard), Italy (Adelphi), Czech Republic (Prostor), Turkey (Yapi Kredi)

A Meeting
Year of Publication: 2006
Thomas Bernhard, Krista FleischmannYear of Publication: 2006

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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Sweden (Svenska Thomas Bernhardsällskapet), Serbia (Red Box)

The Loser
Year of Publication: 1983
Thomas BernhardYear of Publication: 1983
Thomas Bernhard was one of the most original writers of the twentieth century. His formal innovation ranks with Beckett and Kafka, his outrageously cantankerous voice recalls Dostoevsky, but his gift...
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USA (Knopf), UK (Faber & Faber), Spanish world rights (Alfaguara), Basque rights (Alberdania), Catalan rights (El Gall), Brazilian Portuguese rights (Companhia das Letras), Portuguese rights (Relogio d’Agua), Arabic world rights (Al-Kamel), France (Gallimard), Italy (Adelphi), Denmark (Basilisk), Sweden (Tranan), Norway (Gyldendal Norsk), Finland (Teos), Korea (Munhakdongne), Japan (Misuzu Shobo), Vietnam (Tao Dan), Poland (Czytelnik), Czech Republic (Prostor), Slovakia (Kalligram), Romania (Curtea Veche), Estonia (Loomingu Raamatukogu), Serbia (LOM), Slovenia (Hermagoras), Turkey (Yapi Kredi), Greece (Exandas), Macedonia (Blesok), Albanian rights / Kosovo (Pa), Georgia (Sulakauri), Azerbaijan (Alatoran)

Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Hungary (Europa), Bulgaria (Atlantis), Lithuania (Alma Littera), Croatia (Meandar), Israel (Babel)

Yes
Year of Publication: 1978
Thomas BernhardYear of Publication: 1978

»Yes«, answers the Persian woman, the protagonist of Thomas Bernhard’s novel published in 1978, to the narrator’s question of whether she is going to kill herself one day – and laughs.

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USA (Chicago UP), Spanish world rights (Anagrama), Catalan rights (El Gall), Chinese simplex rights (Horizon), Portugal (Sistema Solar), France (Gallimard), Italy (Ugo Guanda), Netherlands (Vleugels), Sweden (Tranan), Finland (Lurra), Japan (Kawade Shobo), Poland (Czytelnik), Turkey (Yapi Kredi), Greece (Antipodes), Israel (Ruth Books)

Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Norway (Bokvennen), Czech Republic (Prostor), Romania (Paralela 45)

Correction
Year of Publication: 1975
Thomas BernhardYear of Publication: 1975
»A body,« according to Correction, first published in German in 1975, »needs at least three points of support, not in a straight line, to fix its position, so Roithamer had written.« The...
Rights sold to:

English world rights (Knopf), Spanish world rights (Alianza), Portuguese rights (Sistema Solar), France (Gallimard), Italy (Adelphi), Netherlands (Vleugels), Denmark (Sisyfos), Sweden (Tranan), Finland (Teos), Korea (Bitsogul), Japan (Kawade), Poland (Czytelnik), Czech Republic (Prostor), Croatia (Petrine), Serbia (LOM), Turkey (Yapi Kredi), Greece (Antipodes), Iran (Ofoq), Israel (Babel)

Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Hungary (Ferenczy Könyvkiado)

Walking
Year of Publication: 1971
Thomas BernhardYear of Publication: 1971

»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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English world rights (University Chicago Press), Spanish world rights (Contraseña), Brazilian Portuguese rights (Editora Brasileira), Portugal (Sistema Solar), France (Gallimard), Italy (Adelphi), Netherlands (Vleugels), Sweden (Tranan), Finland (Teos), Korea (Sechang), Japan (Kawade), Poland (Od Do), Czech Republic (Prostor), Serbia (LOM), Turkey (Yapi Kredi), Greece (Kritiki)

Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Denmark (Basilisk), Norway (Spartacus), Hungary (Europa)

The Lime Works
Year of Publication: 1970
Thomas BernhardYear of Publication: 1970
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...
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English world rights (Knopf), Spanish world rights (Alianza), Portuguese rights (Sistema Solar), France (Gallimard), Italy (Adelphi), Sweden (Tranan), Finland (Teos), Poland (Officyna), Bulgaria (Atlantis), Lithuania (Lithuanian Writers' Union Publishers), Serbia (LOM), Turkey (Yapi Kredi), Greece (Antipodes)

Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Japan (Hayakawa), Czech Republic (Prostor), Hungary (Cartafilus)

Gargoyles
Year of Publication: 1967
Thomas BernhardYear of Publication: 1967
The playwright and novelist Thomas Bernhard was one of the most widely translated and admired writers of his generation, winner of the three most coveted literary prizes in Germany....
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English world rights (Knopf), Spanish world rights (Alianza), Brazilian Portuguese rights (Todavia), France (Gallimard), Italy (Adelphi), Netherlands (Ijzer), Denmark (Sisyfos), Sweden (Tranan), Finland (Teos), Poland (Czytelnik), Turkey (Yapi Kredi), Greece (Antipodes), Azerbaijan (Alatoran)

Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Catalan rights (Ediciones B), Portuguese rights (Relogio d’Agua), Norway (Bokvennen), Korea (Bum-Woo), Czech Republic (Prostor), Hungary (Kalligram)

Amras
Year of Publication: 1965
Thomas BernhardYear of Publication: 1965
»The essence of illness is as dark as the essence of life.« This quote from Novalis serves as a kind of epitaph for this story, written by Thomas Bernhard in 1964. It describes the final phase in the...
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English world rights (Chicago UP), Catalan rights (El Gall), Chinese simplex rights (Horizon), France (Gallimard), Japan (Kawade Shobo), Slovenia (Lud), Turkey (Yapi Kredi Yayincilik)

Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Spanish world rights (Alianza), Italy (Einaudi), Sweden (Tranan), Norway (Bokvennen), Poland (Od Do), Czech Republic (Prostor Nakladatelstvi),  Hungary (Kalligram), Serbia (Lom Doo)

 

Frost
Year of Publication: 1963
Thomas BernhardYear of Publication: 1963
A young medical student accepts an assignment to monitor the painter Strauch who has withdrawn to the mountain village of Weng. He dutifully records Strauch’s monologues and visions in his notes...
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English world rights (Knopf), Spanish world rights (Alianza), Chinese simplex rights (People's Literature Publishing House), Portuguese rights (Dois Dias), France (Gallimard), Italy (Adelphi), Sweden (Tranan), Finland (Teos), Poland (Czytelnik), Czech Republic (Prostor), Bulgaria (Atlantis), Croatia (Meandar), Slovenia (Beletrina), Turkey (Yapi Kredi), Greece (Antipodes), Ukraine (Folio), Armenia (Antares)

Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Russia (Symposium), Netherlands (Atlas), Hungary (Cartafilus), Romania (ART), Estonia (Eesti Raamat)


DISCOVER

News
Thomas Bernhard would have celebrated his 90th birthday on February 9, 2021.