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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
Correction by Thomas Bernhard
$30.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
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 center of his family's estate in honor of his beloved sister. Not long after its completion, he takes his own life. As an unnamed friend pieces t ...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
Extinction by Thomas Bernhard
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International (Paperback)
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 Murau--the intellectual black sheep of a powerful Austrian land-owning family--lives in Rome in self-imposed exile, surrounded by a coterie of artisti ...Show more
Gargoyles by Thomas Bernhard
$28.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International
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 literary prizes in Germany. "Gargoyles, "one of his earliest novels, is a singular, surreal study of the nature of humanity.One morning a doctor and h ...Show more
Gathering Evidence/My Prizes by Thomas Bernhard
$42.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Written with a dark pain and drama that recalls the novels of Dickens, "Gathering Evidence" is a powerful and compelling memoir of youth by one of the twentieth century's most gifted writers. Born in 1931, the illegitimate child of an abandoned mother, Thomas Bernhard was brought up by an eccentric gran ...Show more
Goethe Dies by Thomas Bernhard
$34.95 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
Old Masters by Thomas Bernhard
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'I hate walking, he says, it seems so pointless to me. I walk, and while I am walking I keep thinking how I hate walking' Old Masters (1985) is Thomas Bernhard's devilishly funny story about the friendship between two old men. For over thirty years Reger, a music critic, has sat on the same bench in fro ...Show more