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Three Novellas

Three Novellas( )
Author: Bernhard, Thomas
Translator: Jansen, Peter
Northcott, Kenneth J.
ISBN:978-0-226-04432-3
Publication Date:Jun 2003
Publisher:University of Chicago Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $29.00
Book Description:

Thomas Bernhard is "one of the masters of contemporary European fiction" (George Steiner); "one of the century's most gifted writers" (New York Newsday); "a virtuoso of rancor and rage" (Bookforum). And although he is favorably compared with Franz Kafka, Samuel Beckett, and Robert Musil, Thomas Bernhard still remains relatively unknown in America. Uninitiated readers should consider Three Novellas a passport to the absurd, dark, and uncommonly...
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Book Details
Pages:184
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / Short Stories (Single Author)
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6 x 8 x 0.8 Inches
Book Weight:0.81 Pounds
Author Biography
Bernhard, Thomas (Author)
Thomas Bernhard was born to Austrian parents in Holland and reared by his mother in the vicinity of Salzburg. His temperament and erratic health created difficulties for him as he grew up in a society governed by National Socialists.

Bernhard found the alpine landscapes of his native Austria far more harsh than lyrical. The isolation of the characters in his novels is only slightly mitigated by friendship, generally only between men, and never by love. Yet many readers feel this lack of sentimentality gives Bernhard's work an epic power.

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