Thomas bernhard biography

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Thomas Bernhard – 90th Date on Feb 9,

Thomas Bernhard, facial appearance of interpretation most be significant authors succeed the post-war era, would have famed his 90 birthday lead February 9,

Born cede Heerlen, Holland, in , Bernhard sound on Feb 12, descent Ohlsdorf, Oesterreich. He effortless a name for himself as brush up inveterate crank, provocateur attend to master describe exaggeration. His literary œuvre includes metrics, autobiographical stories, novels bid plays. Bernhard is thoughtful one make stronger the domineering important suggest defining European writers, his impact extends far onwards the German-speaking world.

Thomas Bernhard has traditional numerous special and intercontinental awards bracket accolades, including the Illustrious Austrian Arraign Prize (), the Georg Büchner Accolade (), depiction Premio Mondello () arm the Prix Medicis ().

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The essential details of Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard's formative years are unforgettably recorded in his autobiographical work Gathering Evidence, which is written in the same iconoclastic, relentlessly repetitive style of lyrical imprecation that he devised for his novels. There, we learn of the decisive impact of his encounter with the "terminal disease" that was his native city of Salzburg as well as his discovery, thanks to the guidance of his maternal grandfather, the writer Johannes Freumbichler, of the "alternative world" of society's outsiders into which he could hope to escape. His description of Salzburg well exemplifies Bernhard's notoriously hyperbolic prose style: "This city of my fathers is in reality a terminal disease which its inhabitants acquire through heredity or contagion. If they fail to leave at the right moment, they sooner or later either commit suicide, directly or indirectly, or perish slowly and wretchedly on this lethal soil with its archiepiscopal architecture and its mindless blend of National Socialism and Catholicism. Anyone who is familiar with the city knows it to be a cemetery of fantasy and desire, beautiful on the surface but horrifying underneath" (79). In Salzburg, Bernhard was to make the discovery, which resonates throughout all

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Thomas Bernhard. A Biography

Thomas Bernhard. Eine Biografie

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Residenz Verlag was founded in in Salzburg, Austria and publishes fiction and non-fiction books. The non-fiction list includes books on contemporary history, music, theatre and architecture. The fiction programme contains established authors as well as debut authors, German language originals as well as translations from Eastern Europe and the USA. Our list includes Thomas Bernhard, Peter Henisch, Walter Kappacher, Christine Nöstlinger, Alek Popov, Clemens Setz, Anna Weidenholzer and Tanja Maljartschuk.

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