Prose
Anyone familiar with Thomas Bernhard’s work can call forth a string of adjectives, one more off-putting than the last: bleak, anguished, splenetic, death-obsessed. Correction is about a scientist who kills himself after spending six years constructing a bizarre monument to his sister. The Loser focuses on a musician so lost ...
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Latest Review: "Prose" by Thomas Bernhard
The most recent addition to our Reviews Section is a review by Stephen Sparks of Thomas Bernhard’s Prose, translated from the German by Martin Chalmers and published by Seagull Books. Stephen Sparks is currently on his second go-round as a bookseller at Green Apple Books in San Francisco, after having spent a year as ...
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Bernhard on Translators
Also from the Wilkinson article here’s a quote by Thomas Bernhard on translators that’s quite, um, uplifting: Translators are ghastly: poor devils who get nothing for a translation, only the lowliest fee—shamefully low, as they are wont to say—and they accomplish a ghastly job. In other words, the ...
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Young Bernhard
This Space is the best. Today they have a link to “an eight-minute documentary on Thomas Bernhard featuring an interview from 1967.” Unfortunately for me, it’s not in English, but give it a look if you have some ...
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Bernhard on NPR?
Somewhat surprisingly, Thomas Bernhard’s The Loser is one of NPR’s ‘You Must Read This’ summer picks. Claire Messud (“She has commented, about her current life, ‘Who knew there could be so much poop?’”) picked it. Then I picked up The Loser, and was not only mesmerized, and ...
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Everything Thomas Bernhard Wrote Sounds Interesting
Too bad directors aren’t always up to the task. Via signandsight.com: Thomas Bernhard wrote his first full-length play “Ein Fest für Boris” ( A party for Boris) in 1966 for the Salzburg Festival, however the then president considered the grotesque drama about legless cripples “too dreary”: ...
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