Thomas Bernhard
Written with a dark pain and drama that recalls the novels of Dickens, ,Gathering Evidence, is a powerful and compelling memoir of youth by one of the twentieth centuryâ€™s most gifted writers. ,Â ,Born in 1931, the illegitimate child of an abandoned mother, Thomas Bernhard was brought up by an eccentric grandmother and an adored grandfather in right-wing, Catholic Austria. He ran away from home at age fifteen. Three years later, he contracted pneumonia and was placed in a hospital ward for the old and terminally ill, where he observed first-handâ€”and with unflinching acuityâ€”the cruel nature of protracted suffering and death. From the age of twenty-one, everything he wrote was shaped by the urgency of a dying manâ€™s testamentâ€”and where this account of his life ends, his art begins.,Â ,Included in this edition is ,My Prizes,, a collection of Bernhardâ€™s viciously funny and revelatory essays on his later literary life. Here is a portrait of the artist as a prize-winner: laconic, sardonic, shaking his head with biting amusement at the world and at himself.
Autobiography,Memoir,Biography,European Literature,German Literature,Writing,Essays,Nonfiction,Diary,Journal
Gathering Evidence and My Prizes