'Thomas Bernhard is one of the masters of contemporary European fiction-After Kafka's and Canetti's his sensibility is o
Thomas Bernhard was born in Holland in 1931 but grew up in Austria. His interest in music and theatre led him to study at the Akademie Mozarteum in Salzburg. He has written a quantity of poetry, several novels, short stories and plays and three volumes of autobiography. He died in 1989.
Astonishingly original, a composition of strange new beauty
*The Nation*
If against its own vision Correction offers us only a Teutonic
injunction to take courage, we must do so from Bernhard's own
example, from his determination to look more steadily than any who
have come before into the perishing of the soul
*Chicago Tribune*
Thomas Bernhard is one of the masters of contemporary European
fiction. After Kafka's and Canetti's, his sensibility is one of the
most acute, the most capable of exemplary images and gestures, in
modern literature
*Times Literary Supplement*
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