by Thomas Bernhard · Editorial Anagrama · tapa dura · ISBN 9788433930637
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The Breath is an autobiographical novel by Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard, published in 1985. In this work, Bernhard narrates his experience with a lung condition that forced him to give up his trade apprenticeship and interrupt his musical studies. The story covers the first months of 1949, a time that Bernhard lived in chaotic personal and family circumstances. The outbreak of the disease logically and yet brutally tore him away in every respect from the environment that had been natural to him until then, forcing him into an isolation in which he had to live with illness and death.
Nicolaas Thomas Bernhard was an Austrian novelist, playwright, poet and polemicist who is considered one of the most important German-language authors of the postwar era. He explored themes of death, isolation, obsession and illness in controversial literature that was pessimistic about the human condition and highly critical of post-war Austrian and European culture. He developed a distinctive prose style often featuring multiple perspectives on characters and events, idiosyncratic vocabulary and punctuation, and long monologues by protagonists on the verge of insanity.
