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Prose by Thomas Bernhard; Martin Chalmers (Translator)
$24.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | 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 Cheap-Eaters by Thomas Bernhard; Douglas Robertson (Translator)
$38.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
THE CHEAP-EATERS have been eating at the Vienna Public Kitchen for years, and true to their name, always the cheapest meals. They become the focus of Koller's scientific attention when he deviates one day from his usual path through the park, leading him to come upon the cheap-eaters and to realise that ...Show more
The Lime Works by Thomas Bernhard
$34.00 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
$27.99 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
Victor Halfwit - A Winter's Tale by Thomas Bernhard
$32.95 AUD
Category: Display & Gift
Description: One night in the middle of winter, as deep snow covers the mountains and forests of Austria, a doctor is crossing a ridge from Traich to Foding to see a patient. He stumbles over a body in the darkness and fears it is a corpse. But it's not a corpse at all - in fact, it's wooden-legged Vict ...Show more
Walking - A Novella by Thomas Bernhard; Kenneth J. Northcott (Translator); Brian Evenson (Foreword by)
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Thomas Bernhard is "one of the masters of contemporary European fiction" (George Steiner); "one of the century's most gifted writers" (Newsday); "a virtuoso of rancor and rage" (Bookforum). And although he is favorably compared with Franz Kafka, Samuel Beckett, and Robert Musil, it is only in recent yea ...Show more
Wittgenstein's Nephew: A Friendship by Professor Thomas Bernhard
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
It is 1967, in a Viennese hospital. In separate wards, two men lie bedridden: the narrator, named Thomas Bernhard, is stricken with a lung ailment; his friend Paul, nephew of the celebrated philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, is suffering from one of his periodic bouts of madness. Beginning with his memory ...Show more
Wittgenstein's Nephew - A Friendship by Thomas Bernhard
$27.99 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
Woodcutters by Thomas Bernhard
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Fiercely observed, often hilarious, and reminiscent of Ibsen and Strindberg (The New York Times Book Review), this exquisitely controversial novel was initially banned in its author s homeland. A searing portrayal of Vienna s bourgeoisie, it begins with the arrival of an unnamed writer at an artistic di ...Show more
Woodcutters by Thomas Bernhard
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Penetrating and satirical ... Superbly distinctive and provocative.' - New York Times An unnamed writer arrives at an 'artistic dinner' hosted by a composer and his society wife: a couple he once admired, but has now come to detest. They have been brought together by their friend Joana's suicide, but ...Show more
Yes by Thomas Bernhard
$25.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Phoenix Fiction S.
The narrator, a scientist working on antibodies and suffering from emotional and mental illness, meets a Persian woman, the companion of a Swiss engineer, at an office in rural Austria. For the scientist, his endless talks with the strange Asian woman mean release from his condition, but for the Persian ...Show more