by Thomas Bernhard · Tapa dura · ISBN 9783518415016
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«Frost» is the novel by Austrian author Thomas Bernhard, published by Suhrkamp in hardcover (359 pages, in German).
A medical student is sent to a remote mountain village to observe an eccentric painter, Strauch. His dealings with him, his nihilistic vision and his obsession with death and decay end up disturbing the young man. The novel explores alienation, madness and the meaning of art.
Thomas Bernhard's first novel, originally published in 1963 and winner of the Bremer Literaturpreis 1965. This edition is volume 1 of «Werke in 22 Bänden».
For readers of German literature interested in modern classics and Bernhard's philosophical narrative.
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.
