Thomas Bernhard

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  • Bibliography:
    24 Books
  • First Book:
    May 1984
  • Latest Book:
    December 2022
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Book List in Order: 24 titles

  • Concrete

    Instead of the book he’s meant to write, Rudolph, a Viennese musicologist, produces this dark and grotesquely funny account of small woes writ large, of profound horrors detailed and rehearsed to the point of distraction. We learn of Rudolph’s si...

  • Woodcutters

    Fiercely observed, often hilarious, and “reminiscent of Ibsen and Strindberg” (The New York Times Book Review), this exquisitely controversial novel was initially banned in its author’s homeland. A searing portrayal of Vienna’s bourgeois...

  • Wittgenstein's Nephew

    It is 1967. In separate wings of a Viennese hospital, two men lie bedridden. The narrator, named Thomas Bernhard, is stricken with a lung ailment; his friend Paul, nephew of the celebrated philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, is suffering from one of his...

  • The Loser

    Thomas Bernhard was one of the most original writers of the twentieth century. His formal innovation ranks with Beckett and Kafka, his outrageously cantankerous voice recalls Dostoevsky, but his gift for lacerating, lyrical, provocative prose is inco...

  • Old Masters

    In this exuberantly satirical novel, the tutor Atzbacher has been summoned by his friend Reger to meet him in a Viennese museum. While Reger gazes at a Tintoretto portrait, Atzbacher -- who fears Reger’s plans to kill himself -- give...

  • Yes

    The narrator, a scientist working on antibodies and suffering from emotional and mental illness, meets a Persian woman, the companion of a Swiss engineer, at an office in rural Austria. For the scientist, his endless talks with the strange Asian w...

  • Cutting Timber

    (A black comedy of manners in which Bernhard portrays Viennese bourgeois society, the theatre world, and civilization itself. The narrator has spent the last 30 years in London. On a brief trip to Vienna he meets a couple he knew in his youth, who te...

  • Extinction

    From the late Thomas Bernhard, arguably Austria's most influential novelist of the postwar period, and one of the greatest artists in all twentieth-century literature in the German language, his magnum opus.Extinction, Bernhard's last work of fiction...

  • Gathering Evidence



  • The Voice Imitator

    The Austrian playwright, novelist, and poet Thomas Bernhard (1931-89) is acknowledged as among the major writers of our times. At once pessimistic and exhilarating, Bernhard’s work depicts the corruption of the modern world, the dynamics of totalit...

  • Correction

    The scientist Roithamer has dedicated the last six years of his life to “the Cone,” an edifice of mathematically exact construction that he has erected in the center of his family’s estate in honor of his beloved sister. Not long after its comp...

  • Three Novellas

    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...

  • Over All the Mountain Tops

    This play is Thomas Bernhard's devastating satire on the business of literature. The novelist Moritz Meister, after years of neglect, has finally achieved the status of Grand Old Man of German literature. With breathtaking regal condescension he rece...

  • Frost

    Visceral, raw, singular, and distinctive, Frost is the story of a friendship between a young man at the beginning of his medical career and a painter who is entering his final days. A writer of world stature, Thomas Bernhard combined a searing wit an...

  • Gargoyles

    The playwright and novelist Thomas Bernhard was one of the most widely translated and admired writers of his generation, winner of the three most coveted literary prizes in Germany. Gargoyles, one of his earliest novels, is a singular, surreal stu...

  • The Lime Works

    For twenty years, Konrad has imprisoned himself and his crippled wife in an abandoned lime works where he's conducted odd auditory experiments and prepared to write his masterwork, The Sense of Hearing. As the story begins, he's just blown the head o...

  • Prose

    “His manner of speaking, like that of all the subordinated, excluded, was awkward, like a body full of wounds, into which at any time anyone can strew salt, yet so insistent, that it is painful to listen to him,” from The Carpenter

    The A...

  • Victor Halfwit

    One night in the middle of winter, as deep snow covers the mountains and forests, a doctor is crossing the ridge in Austria from Traich to Föding to see a patient. He stumbles over a body in the darkness and fears it is a corpse. But it’s not a...

  • Walking

    A walk with a friend unspools a far-ranging, darkly comic, philosophical dialogue in this novella by “one of the masters of contemporary European fiction” (George Steiner).With celebrated novels such as The Loser, Woodcutters, and Extinction, Aus...



  • Dead Goethe

    This collection of four stories by the writer George Steiner called “one of the masters of European fiction” is, as longtime fans of Thomas Bernhard would expect, bleakly comic and inspiringly rancorous. The subject of his stories vary: in one, G...

  • Goethe Dies

    This collection of four stories by the writer George Steiner called “one of the masters of European fiction” is, as longtime fans of Thomas Bernhard would expect, bleakly comic and inspiringly rancorous. The subject of his stories vary: in one, G...

  • The Cheap-Eaters

    Fiction. Translated by Douglas Robertson. THE CHEAP-EATERS have been eating at the Vienna Public Kitchen for years, and true to their name, always the cheapest meals. They become the focus of Koller's scientific attention when he deviates one day fro...

  • The Rest Is Slander

    A collection of previously untranslated stories from a master of twentieth-century Austrian literature, Thomas Bernhard.“The cold increases with the clarity,” said Thomas Bernhard while accepting a major literary prize in 1965. That clarity was t...

  • Voice Impersonator

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Thomas Bernhard has published 24 books.

Thomas Bernhard does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Rest Is Slander, was published in December 2022.

The first book by Thomas Bernhard, Concrete, was published in May 1984.

No. Thomas Bernhard does not write books in series.
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