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Concrete by Thomas Bernhard
24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Probably nothing exists that would prepare one for Bernhard's machined vehemence, though once you've read one, you perhaps start to crave the bitter taste and the savage not-quite-humour ... Genius.' - Michael Hofmann Instead of the book he is meant to write, Rudolph, a Viennese musicologist, produces ...Show more
Correction by Thomas Bernhard
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Roithamer, a character based on Wittgenstein, has committed suicide having been driven to madness by his own frightening powers of pure thought. We witness the gradual breakdown of a genius ceaselessly compelled to correct and refine his perceptions until the only logical conclusion is the negation of h ...Show more
Extinction by Thomas Bernhard
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Extinction features, without doubt, the funniest passage in the whole of literature. The dreadful becomes hilarious, joyful - and it makes one thirst for more of the similar.' - Geoff Dyer Franz-Josef Murau is the intellectual black sheep of a powerful Austrian land-owning family. He now lives in Rome ...Show more
Goethe Dies by Thomas Bernhard
44.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: SB-The German List
This collection of four stories by the writer George Steiner called one of the masters of European fiction is, as longtime fans of Thomas Bernhard would expect, bleakly comic and inspiringly rancorous. The subject of his stories vary: in one, Goethe summons Wittgenstein to discuss the "Tractatus Logico- ...Show more
Goethe Dies by Thomas Bernhard; James Reidel (Translator)
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The\German List Ser.
This collection of four stories by the writer George Steiner called "one of the masters of European fiction" is, as longtime fans of Thomas Bernhard would expect, bleakly comic and inspiringly rancorous. The subject of his stories vary: in one, Goethe summons Wittgenstein to discuss the Tractatus Logico ...Show more
Heldenplatz by BERNHARD THOMAS
21.95 AUD
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays
Highly controversial in Austria, this play concerns a Jewish professor who returns to Vienna after the Second World War and discovers that his fellow Austrians are as anti-semitic as ever. Heldenplatz is the square in Vienna where the Austrian-born Hitler made his first speech after the Anschluss.
Old Masters: A Comedy by Thomas Bernhard
35.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The\German List Ser.
Thomas Bernhard's Old Masters has been called his "most enjoyable novel" by the New York Review of Books. 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 f ...Show more
Prose by Thomas Bernhard; Martin Chalmers (Translator)
33.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Seagull World Literature Ser.
"His 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 Carpenter The Austrian playwright, novelist, and poet Thomas Bernhard (1931-89) i ...Show more
The Lime Works by Thomas Bernhard
24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International (Paperback)
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 Hearing." As the story begins, he's just blown the head off his wife with the Mannlicher carbine she kept strap ...Show more
The Loser by Thomas Bernhard
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'When indefatigable obsession looms large as it does in Thomas Bernhard (and his revered precursor Kafka) the result for the reader is a strange exhilaration and the thrall at being admitted into the mind of a maddened, magical genius.' - Edna O'Brien Mid-century Austria. Three aspiring concert pianist ...Show more
The Voice Imitator by Thomas Bernhard
19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 ...Show more
Wittgenstein's Nephew - A Friendship by Thomas Bernhard
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Furious, obsessive, scathing, absolutely hilarious and oddly beautiful.' - Claire Messud It is 1967. Two men lie bedridden in separate wings of a Viennese hospital. The narrator, Thomas Bernhard, is stricken with a lung ailment; his friend Paul, nephew of Ludwig Wittgenstein, is suffering from one of ...Show more