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His interest in music and theatre led him to study at the Akademie Mozarteum in Salzburg.  He has written a quantity of poetry, several novels, short stories and plays and three volumes of autobiography.  He died in 1989.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAstonishingly original, a composition of strange new beauty * The Nation *\u003cbr\u003eIf against its own vision \u003ci\u003eCorrection\u003c\/i\u003e offers us only a Teutonic injunction to take courage, we must do so from Bernhard's own example, from his determination to look more steadily than any who have come before into the perishing of the soul * Chicago Tribune *\u003cbr\u003eThomas Bernhard is one of the masters of contemporary European fiction. 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Underpinning all these variously comic, tragic, and bitingly satirical excursions is Bernhard’s abiding interest in, and deep knowledge of, the philosophy of doubt.","brand":"Seagull Books London Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48866085568855,"sku":"9780857427052","price":14.18,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}]},{"product_id":"thomas-bernhard-3-days-9780922233465","title":"Thomas Bernhard 3 Days","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eOver the course of three days in 1970, June 5, 6, and 7, simply sitting on a white bench in a Hamburg park, Thomas Bernhard delivered a powerful monologue for \u003ci\u003eThree Days\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eDrei Tage\u003c\/i\u003e), filmmaker Ferry Radax’s commanding film portrait of the great Austrian writer. Radax interwove the monologue with a variety of metaphorically resonant visual techniques—blacking out the screen to total darkness, suggestive of the closing of the observing eye; cuts to scenes of cameramen, lighting and recording equipment; extreme camera distance and extreme closeup. Bernhard had not yet written his autobiographical work \u003ci\u003eGathering Evidence\u003c\/i\u003e, published originally in five separate volumes between 1975 and 1982, and his childhood remembrances were a revelation. This publication of Bernhard’s monologue and stills from Radax’s artful film allows this unique portrait of Bernhard to be savored in book form.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Great book design is always a combination of several things. Taste, cleverness, an ability to graphically augment content… But this goes beyond all of that. Perhaps beyond design altogether. This collaboration between Laura Lindgren (translator and designer), Ferry Radax (Bernhard’s film biographer), and Thomas Bernhard (one of the great writers of the 20th century) has produced a unique work of art. Bernhard had a pathological suspicion about words and language––about writing, maybe about consciousness, itself––  He wrote in such a way as to undermine the process of writing. The writer with an underlying hatred of writing, as if each word was a stain on the page. I must confess to an awe of Bernhard. Awe and admiration. This dadaesque book, \u003ci\u003e3 Days\u003c\/i\u003e, brings Bernhard to life. It may be the quintessential Bernhard volume. I love it, and it has already become one of my favorite books.\" —Errol Morris, filmmaker and author of \u003ci\u003eBelieving Is Seeing\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"If the novelist and playwright Thomas Bernhard had not lived, Samuel Beckett or Werner Herzog would have created him as an existential antihero. 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Filmmaker Ferry Radax came up with precisely the right minimalist process for interviewing him, which Laura Lindgren has translated (in every sense) to the pages of this meticulously beautiful book.\" —John Strausbaugh, author of \u003ci\u003eCity of Sedition\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Village\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Beautiful—and strikingly spare—few books exert such fascination so quickly!\"—Sven Birkerts, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Gutenberg Elegies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThomas Bernhard: 3 Days\u003c\/i\u003e works so well as (photo-)album book that there are times one forgets that it is a film-record…\u003ci\u003e Thomas Bernhard: 3 Days\u003c\/i\u003e isn't so much a print-reproduction of the film as a complement to it (with Vogt's Afterword providing some useful supplementary information), and a beautiful and very appealing work all on its own.\" —M. A. 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That clarity was the postwar realization that the West’s last remaining cultural reference points were being swept away by the ever-greater commodification of humankind. Collecting five stylistically transitional tales by Bernhard, all of which take place in sites of extreme cold, this volume extends that bleak vision of the master Austrian storyteller.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e In “Ungenach,” the reluctant heir of an enormous estate chooses to give away his legacy to an assortment of oddballs as he discovers the past of his older brother, who was murdered during a career in futile colonialist philanthropy. In “The Weatherproof Cape,” a lawyer tries to maintain a sense of familial solidarity with a now-dead client with the help of an unremarkable piece of clothing. “Midland in Stilfs” casts a jaundiced eye on the laughable efforts of a cosmopolitan foreigner to attain local authenticity on a moribund Alpine farmstead. 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A master of language, whose body of work was described in a New York Times book review as \"the most significant literary achievement since World War II,\" Bernhard's On Earth and in Hell offers a distilled perspective on the essence of his artistry and his theme of death as the only reality. A remarkable achievement by highly-respected translator Peter Waugh.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Peter Waugh offers haunting and beautiful renderings of Thomas Bernhard's poetry...A fascinating peek into the genesis of Austria's controversial literary figure\" --New York Journal of Books \"These hard won-poems, these furious convulsions, by turns savage and tender, mark the beginning of Thomas Bernhard's true work, his first startling blows. It is deeply illuminating to have them so wonderfully translated into English.\" --Edward Hirsch, poet, Gabriel: A Poem; How to Read a Poem (and Fall in Love with Poetry) \"If Thomas Bernhard's poems were paintings, they would be German Expressionist, emphasizing distortions of objective realities to convey subjective feelings (think of The Scream by Edvard Munch, not German but a definite influence on Expressionism). While, in 1957, the free verse of Bernhard's poems is hardly renegade, his distortion of realities is much more so. It provokes.\" --Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene \"[In] this full version of ON EARTH AND IN HELL, Thomas Bernhardt's very first publication, in 1957, as a poet and, more importantly, as a writer ... [is] a hypersensitive stranger, leading me through a heart-wrenching journey, circles of hell punctuated with spring beams and unexpected bubbles of tenderness. A soul exposed to the very core, explosive.\" --from the Foreword by Barbara Hutt, co-author, Thomas Bernhard \"In these poems, written in Bernhard's mid-twenties ... all the matter of the subsequent malicious laughter is there--the self-splitting disgust and nostalgia, the hyperbolic despair, the failed (desired but also scorned) glory, the juxtaposition of village idyll and doom, of scathing superiority and terminal degradation, of sex, and nauseated frailty and exhaustion.\" --from the introduction by Jaimy Gordon, author, Lord of Misrule (National Book Award winner) \"Bernhard was ... Austria's most important postwar writer, a provocateur who delighted in finding his country and countrymen odious and then making the best of it in his art.\" The New York Times \"Astonishingly original, a composition of strange new beauty.\"--The Nation \"Bernhard (born in 1931) has become one of the most acclaimed writers and playwrights of his generation.\" --Library Journal \"For all their acrid elegance, [these poems] are compelling because Thomas Bernhard wrote them... [T]hey ... show how deeply Bernhard, the caustic besmircher of the native nest, was rooted in the soil of his homeland. Every line suggests that his love of it was almost equal to his loathing.\"--Eric Ormsby, New York Sun \"As readers we are in the relentless grip of Bernhard. One marvels at the consistency of his austere vision.\" --The New York Times Book Review \"Thomas Bernhard was first and possibly foremost a poet, belonging in the company of Georg Trakl and Paul Celan ... a major twentieth-century poet.\"--Carolyn Forche, author of Blue Hour: Poems \"Remarkable... Bernhard ... is lapidary and translucent.\" --Times Literary Supplement (London) \"Little by little, with supernatural patience, prodigious cunning and craft--like Joseph Heller in Catch-22--Bernhard fashions an original angle of vision that transforms our understanding. 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It's a wild satire that takes place almost entirely in front of Tintoretto's White-Bearded Man, on display in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, as two typically Viennese pedants (serving as alter egos for Bernhard himself) irreverently, even contemptuously take down high culture, society, state-supported artists, Heidegger, and much more. It's a book built on thought and conversation rather than action or visuals. Yet somehow celebrated Austrian cartoonist Nicholas Mahler has brought it to life in graphic form and it's brilliant. This volume presents Mahler's typically minimalist cartoons alongside new translations of selected passages from the novel. The result is a version of Old Masters that is strikingly new, yet still true to Bernhard's bleak vision, and to the novel's outrageous proposition that the perfect work of art is truly unbearable to even think about let alone behold.","brand":"Seagull Books London Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406305468759,"sku":"9780857424709","price":16.14,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}]},{"product_id":"prose-9780857425768","title":"Prose","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHis manner of speaking, like that of all the subordinated, excluded, was awkward, like a body full of wounds, into which at any time anyone can strew salt, yet so insistent, that it is painful to listen to him, from The CarpenterThe Austrian playwright, novelist, and poet Thomas Bernhard (193189) is acknowledged as among the major writers of our time. The seven stories in this collection capture Bernhard's distinct darkly comic voice and visionoften compared to Kafka and Musilcommenting on a corrupted world.  First published in German in 1967, these stories were written at the same time as Bernhard's early novels Frost, Gargoyles, and The Lime Works, and they display the same obsessions, restlessness, and disarming mastery of language. Martin Chalmer's outstanding translation, which renders the work in English for the first time, captures the essential personality of the work. The narrators of these stories lack the strength to do anything but listen and then write, the reader in turn becoming a captive listener, deciphering the traps laid by memoryand the mere words, the neverending words with which we try to pin it down. Words that are always close to driving the narrator crazy, but yet, as Bernhard writes not completely crazy.Bernhard's glorious talent for bleak existential monologues is second only to Beckett's, and seems to have sprung up fully mature in his mesmerizing debut.From Publishers Weekly, on Frost The feeling grows that Thomas Bernhard is the most original, concentrated novelist writing in German. His connections . . . with the great constellation of Kafka, Musil, and Broch become ever clearer. 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