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Thomas Bernhard was born on 9 February 1931 in Heerlen, the Netherlands, where his unmarried Austrian mother, Herta Bernhard, worked as a maid. In the autumn of 1931, Herta took Thomas to Vienna to live with her parents: Anna Bernhard and her de facto husband, the novelist Johannes Freumbichler.
Thomas Bernhard was an Austrian writer who ranks among the most distinguished German-speaking writers of the second half of the 20th century.
Thomas Bernhard was an Austrian writer who explored death, social injustice, and human misery in controversial literature that was deeply pessimistic about modern civilization in general and Austrian culture in particular.
Apr 17, 2013 · During the 58 years of his life, the Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard (1931–1989) composed more than 60 works of fiction, theater, poetry, and nonfiction, including at least 29 books currently ...
Novelist, poet, and playwright Thomas Bernhard is one of the great German-language writers of the latter half of the 20th century. His work is often described as acerbic, misanthropic, and unrelenting.
As a highly prolific writer, whose true artistic intent and radical aggressiveness vis-à-vis his audience, his homeland, and society at large remain veiled in contradiction, Bernhard elicited...
Examine the life, times, and work of Thomas Bernhard through detailed author biographies on eNotes.
Chantal Thomas's Thomas Bernhard, which appeared in 1990, was, in turn, the first significant critical study devoted exclusively to his work. Since 1991, Gallimard has been publishing Bernhard's work in paperback editions, which is, as Porcell notes, the unmistakable sign that Bernhard has been accepted into the pantheon of literary classics.
Thomas Bernhard. in English: works, essays, reviews. about this site. Complete story "Two Tutors" from Prosa. "What matters is whether we want to lie or to tell the truth and write the truth, even though it never can be the truth and never is the truth." Gathering Evidence p. 161.
Thomas Bernhard began his career in the early 1950s as a poet und seemed always on the verge of joining the ranks of Ingeborg Bachmann, Paul Celan and other young post-war poets writing in German. Filled with an undulant self-pity, counterpointed by a defamatory, bardic voice, Bernhard’s verse ...
