Thomas Bernhard: 60 books

Book cover of The Voice Imitator
by Thomas Bernhard
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018

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...
Book cover of Il respiro

Il respiro

Una decisione

by Thomas Bernhard
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 19, 2014

Come in un’allucinazione, il diciottenne Thomas Bernhard si risveglia un giorno in «un lungo corridoio» con una «infinita serie di stanze, aperte e chiuse, popolate da centinaia se non migliaia di pazienti». È l’ospedale dove Bernhard lotterà per sopravvivere a una grave malattia polmonare....
Book cover of Il nipote di Wittgenstein
by Thomas Bernhard
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 30, 2013

Paul Wittgenstein, nipote del filosofo «il cui "Tractatus logico-philosophicus" è ben noto in tutto il mondo scientifico e più ancora in tutto il mondo pseudoscientifico», fu per lunghi anni amico di Thomas Bernhard. Uomo sensibilissimo, inadatto al mondo, nutrito da una passione «esclusiva...
Book cover of Thomas Bernhard, Gerhard Fritsch: Der Briefwechsel
by Thomas Bernhard, Gerhard Fritsch
Language: German
Release Date: November 11, 2014

Thomas Bernhard und Gerhard Fritsch: Zwei der wichtigsten Autoren in Österreich seit den fünfziger Jahren. Die erstmals veröffentlichte Korrespondenz zwischen beiden umfasst knapp 50 Briefe, Karten und Ansichtskarten, die einen Einblick in die verdeckten Hintergründe der Produktion und Vermittlung von Literatur erlauben.
Book cover of Walking

Walking

A Novella

by Thomas Bernhard
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015

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...
Book cover of Antichi Maestri
by Thomas Bernhard
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 12, 2014

Ogni due giorni, un vecchio signore si siede nella Sala Bordone della Pinacoteca di Vienna e guarda un celebre quadro di Tintoretto. Quell’uomo ha molto del genio, in un Paese che non tollera i geni («Il genio e l’Austria non sono compatibili» leggeremo qui). Che cosa cerca? Qualcosa che non...
Book cover of L'origine

L'origine

Un accenno

by Thomas Bernhard
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 19, 2014

«All’interno del collegio non avevo potuto constatare alcun mutamento di rilievo, se non il fatto che la stanza cosiddetta di soggiorno nella quale eravamo stati educati al nazionalsocialismo era adesso diventata una cappella, e al posto del podio su cui prima della fine della guerra era salito...
Book cover of Extinction

Extinction

A Novel

by Thomas Bernhard
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013

From the late Thomas Bernhard, arguably Austria's most influential novelist of the postwar period, and one of the greatest artists in all twentieth-century literature in the German language, his magnum opus. Extinction, Bernhard's last work of fiction, takes the form of the autobiographical...
Book cover of Camminare
by Thomas Bernhard
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 13, 2018

«Mentre io, prima che Karrer impazzisse, camminavo con Oehler solo di mercoledì, ora, dopo che Karrer è impazzito, cammino con Oehler anche di lunedì ... ho salvato Oehler dall'orrore ... perché non c'è nulla di più orribile del dover camminare da soli di lunedì»: bastano poche frasi, ad...
Book cover of Il freddo

Il freddo

Una segregazione

by Thomas Bernhard
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 19, 2014

"Il freddo" racconta il periodo passato da Thomas Bernhard, fra i diciotto e i diciannove anni, nel sanatorio pubblico di Grafenhof. Ed è la storia di un’altra lotta durissima per la sopravvivenza, dove la malattia che assale il giovane Bernhard è al tempo stesso una malattia terribilmente...
Book cover of Frost

Frost

A Novel

by Thomas Bernhard
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010

Visceral, raw, singular, and distinctive, Frost is the story of a friendship between a young man at the beginning of his medical career and a painter who is entering his final days. A writer of world stature, Thomas Bernhard combined a searing wit and an unwavering gaze into the human condition....
Book cover of My Prizes

My Prizes

An Accounting

by Thomas Bernhard
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2010

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...
Book cover of Gargoyles

Gargoyles

A Novel

by Thomas Bernhard
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010

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. Gargoyles, one of his earliest novels, is a singular, surreal study of the nature of humanity.   One...
Book cover of On Earth and in Hell

On Earth and in Hell

Early Poems

by Thomas Bernhard
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015

The first English translation of the earliest poetry of brilliant and disruptive Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard, widely considered one of the most innovative and original authors of the twentieth century and often associated with fellow mavericks Beckett, Kafka and Dostoevsky. A master of language,...
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