Prose (The German List) (The German List - (Seagull Titles CHUP)) (Seagull World Literature)

by Thomas Bernhard

Martin Chalmers (Translator)

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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...Read more
  • ISBN10 1906497567
  • ISBN13 9781906497569
  • Publish Date 10 August 2010
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 17 January 2022
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Seagull Books London Ltd