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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 comic world of Bernhard. Two of the three novellas here have never before been published in English, and all of them show an early preoccupation with the themes-illness and madness, isolation, tragic friendships-that would obsess Bernhard throughout his career. Amras , one of his earliest works, tells the story of two brothers, one epileptic, who have survived a family suicide pact and are now living in a ruined tower, struggling with madness, trying either to come fully back to life or finally to die. In Playing Watten , the narrator, a doctor who lost his practice due to morphine abuse, describes a visit paid him by a truck driver who wanted the doctor to return to his habit of playing a game of cards (watten) every Wednesday—a habi

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Author

Thomas Bernhard; Kenneth J. Northcott; Peter Jansen; Brian Evenson

Publisher

The University of Chicago Press

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9780226044323

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.95 / 5 (95 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14