Prose - Couverture rigide

Bernhard, Thomas

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1906497567 ISBN 13 : 9781906497569

Editeur : Seagull Books London Ltd, 2010

Synopsis

The Austrian playwright, novelist, and poet Thomas Bernhard (1931-89) is acknowledged as one of the major writers of our time. The seven stories in this collection capture Bernhard's distinct darkly comic voice and vision - often compared to Kafka and Musil - commenting on a corrupted world. First published in German in 1967, these stories were written at the same time as Bernhard's early novels "Frost", "Gargoyles", and "The Lime Works", and they display the same obsessions, restlessness, and disarming mastery of language. Martin Chalmers' outstanding translation, which renders the work in English for the first time, captures the essential personality of the writing. The narrators of these stories lack the strength to do anything but listen and then write, the reader in turn becoming a captive listener, deciphering the traps laid by memory - and the mere words, the never-ending words with which we try to pin it down. Words that are always close to driving the narrator crazy, yet, as Bernhard writes, 'not completely crazy'.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Thomas Bernhard grew up in Salzburg and Vienna, where he studied music. In 1957 he began a second career as a playwright, poet, and novelist. He went on to win many of the most prestigious literary awards of Europe. Martin Chalmers is a translator and editor whose translations include works by Hubert Fichte, Ernst Weiss, Herta Mueller, Alexander Kluge, Emine Sevgi Oezdamar, and Erich Hackl.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Seagull Books London Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1906497567
• ISBN 13: 9781906497569
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 180
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• Personne responsable: non disponible