For all its occasional shrillness and repetitiousness, and its denunciations of ""society,'' ``community'' and ``education'' in terms of passionate generality, this unparagraphed outpouring of ...

A review of Thomas Bernhard: The Making of an Austrian, by Gitta Honegger. In the third volume of his inimitable autobiography he writes: “All my life I have been a trouble-maker, and I shall go on ...

For the sympathetic Anglophone charged with reviewing newly translated texts by the Austrian playwright and novelist Thomas Bernhard, the task is a paradoxically onerous one. Put aside the near ...

As we watch Mario Vargas Llosa step up to accept his Nobel gold from King Carl Gustaf in this season of literary awards, and a handful of fortunate National Book Award winners pocket their $10,000 ...

We’ve all been there to a certain extent — that place where things are so horrible you just have to laugh, not so much to keep from crying but because the situation has become absurd. For Austrian ...

Rereading Thomas Bernhard’s Extinction (1986) was a prospect I contemplated with some trepidation. Not because of the risk that, in the 20-plus years since I last read it, the book might fall short of ...

Raybod Publication has brought out the book that has been translated into Persian by Hadi Mortazavi, Mehr reported. The 1988 stage drama was the final play written by Bernhard and sparked one of the ...

We are living in discordant times. But, with the caveat that this may sound attractive to many readers of The Quietus, not in a good way. One of the most disturbing things about Brexit and the ...

One of the more contentious moments in the contentious history of German letters occurred some fifteen years ago in an argument over a theater emergency light. A play about the evil side of creation ...

Woodcutters, based on the novel by Austrian author Thomas Bernhard, was realized by the Polski Theatre in Wrocław. The play’s plot takes place over a dinner shared by old friends from an informal art ...

Bernhard is the most significant Austrian writer of the generation born in the 1930s and coming into adulthood after World War II. The painful experience growing up as an unwanted and sick child ...