The novel Concrete was written by Thomas Bernhard (1931-1989) in 1982 in one go: like the narrator, the author begins work on the manuscript in the winter in Austria and completes it in the spring in Palma de Mallorca. Scattering transparent autobiographical hints throughout the text, exposing some fears (animal fear of suffocation, freezing, fear of a blank sheet) and obscuring others (poverty, intimacy), he turned the confession of a hero with sarcoidosis into a truly baroque farce, in which death and melancholy come together in the last dancing You can read this non-stop narcissistic speech as a confession on a psychoanalyst’s couch, as a typical Austrian logical-philosophical monodrama, a family romance of neurotics or a bourgeois story of the death of one family, the main theme is still music. The book about the impossibility of writing a book about the composer Mendelssohn is Bernhard’s musical contribution to modernism, putting him on a par with the masters of the “inexpressible” Beckett, Pessoa, Celan, Bachmann. The publishing layout of the book is preserved in PDF A4 format.