Thomas Bernhard
Thomas Bernhard
Thomas Bernhardwas an Austrian novelist, playwright and poet. Bernhard, whose body of work has been called "the most significant literary achievement since World War II," is widely considered to be one of the most important German-speaking authors of the postwar era...
NationalityAustrian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth9 February 1931
CountryAustria
misunderstood doe language
Everyone, he went on, speaks a language he does not understand, but which now and then is understood by others. That is enough to permit one to exist and at least to be misunderstood.
study sickness poetic
The study of sickness is the most poetic of the sciences.
errors childhood inmates
I had to spend my entire childhood in the Altensam dungeon like an inmate doing time for no comprehensible reason, for a crime he can't remember committing, a judicial error probably.
making-money fame motive
We publish only to satisfy out craving for fame; there's no other motive except the even baser one of making money....