by Thomas Bernhard · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070137701
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«Sur les traces de la vérité» is an anthology of speeches, letters, interviews and articles by Thomas Bernhard (Gallimard, paperback, 420 pp., French).
The book chronologically brings together articles, letters, interviews and statements by Thomas Bernhard. In them, Bernhard shows his vision of an absurd world governed by ignorance and bad faith, and his habit of turning current affairs into scandal. It opens with a 1954 lecture and ends with a letter published three days after his death.
Gallimard's Arcades collection. Translated from German; original title: «Der Wahrheit auf der Spur. Reden, Leserbriefe, Interviews, Feuilletons».
For readers who already know Bernhard's novels and plays and want to delve into his public and controversial side.
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.
