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 ...

The scientist Roithamer has dedicated the last six years of his life to “the Cone”, an edifice of mathematically exact construction that he has erected in...

The autobiographical stories of the classic of modern Austrian literature, prose writer and playwright Thomas Bernhard (1931–1989) are one of the brightest p...

Instead of the book he’s meant to write, Rudolph, a Viennese musicologist, produces this dark and grotesquely funny account of small woes writ large, of p...

The last work of fiction by one of the twentieth century’s greatest artists, Extinction is widely considered Thomas Bernhard’s magnum opus.Franz-Josef Mur...

Fiercely observed, often hilarious, and “reminiscent of Ibsen and Strindberg” (The New York Times Book Review), this exquisitely controversial novel was i...

A gathering of brilliant and viciously funny recollections from one of the twentieth century’s most famous literary enfants terribles.Written in 1980 but ...

Thomas Bernhard is “one of the masters of contemporary European fiction” (George Steiner); “one of the century’s most gifted writers” (Newsday); “a virtuo...

Thomas Bernhard was one of the most original writers of the twentieth century. His formal innovation ranks with Beckett and Kafka, his outrageously cantan...

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...

1967. In different buildings of a Vienna hospital, two men lie bedridden. The narrator, named Thomas Bernhard, is stricken with a lung disease; his friend Pa...