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Concrete by Thomas Bernhard
22.99 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
39.95 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
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
Wittgenstein's Nephew - A Friendship by Thomas Bernhard
23.99 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
Wittgenstein's Nephew: A Friendship by Professor Thomas Bernhard
28.00 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
Woodcutters by Thomas Bernhard
22.99 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
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