by Thomas Bernhard · Editions Gallimard · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070443857
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«Mes prix littéraires» is Thomas Bernhard's essay book, published by Editions Gallimard in paperback (141 pages, in French).
Part chronicle, part settling of scores, Thomas Bernhard reviews the literary prizes he received and attacks Austrian and German jurors, organizers and dignitaries. The volume brings together nine accounts of the ceremonies and the corresponding acceptance speeches, written with irony and contempt, showing his corrosive view of the cultural industry and the vanity of honorary distinctions.
Posthumous work finished in 1980, with original German title Meine Preise; French translation by Daniel Mirsky.
For those who enjoy Bernhard's corrosive satire and writers' memoirs about the literary world.
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.
