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Thomas Bernhard thread. What is your favorite work by him?

>> No.11776043

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hk3rKIW3qg

>> No.11776054

>>11776017
that one where the really smart guy who wants to kill himself complains

>> No.11776182
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11776182

What is this guy most known for?

I don't even know, I just have this picture saved.

>> No.11776202

>>11776017
I've only read Woodcutters. Loved it and plan on reading more of his work.

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11776219

Only read The Loser. I liked it for its dark and dreary stream of consciousness.

>> No.11777189

>>11776054
aha awesome...bernhard bro <3

>> No.11777208

>>11776182
Unironically this >>11776054 except it's a lot better than it sounds. The Loser is his most famous book, I think.

I've read most of his books at this point, it's hard to choose a favorite but The Loser is up there. Woodcutters, Correction, and The Lime Works were great too.

>> No.11777335

>>11776219
Why can't I find this on libgen

>> No.11777913

Did he write something that makes fun of Wittgenstein ? I'm a heideggerfag and would enjoy this.

>> No.11777939

>>11777913
no

>> No.11777949

I was in his favourite cafe in Vienna, very nice and unassuming place. Got a couple of unobtrusive pics of him there and no overtly obvious tourists.

As for his books, his short stories / epigraphs are endearing and I have yet to finish the other half of Gargoyles. He's like Cioran to me in a sense that his work blends into one morose corpus. But unlike Cioran, he can be very funny.

>> No.11777986

Where does one start with him? The Loser? Also, what is his short stories work called (if there’s a book gathering them)?

>> No.11777988

>>11776017
nothing, i dont read nestbeschmutzer

>> No.11777999

I loved Holzfällen. One of the few books I keep rereading.

>> No.11778006

>>11777986
woodcutters is a quick, easy-ish read

>> No.11778035

>>11776054
hmmm

>> No.11778050

>>11777913
He made fun of Heidegger.

>> No.11778057

>>11777986
The Loser is a good starting point.

>> No.11778065

>>11777986
I started with The Loser. Wittgenstein's Nephew is good to start with too since it's short.

>> No.11778068

>>11778050
What did he say about him?

>> No.11778092

>>11778068
https://kinkatso.blogspot.com/2016/01/heideggers-cow-butchered-by-thomas.html

>> No.11778121

>>11778092
lmao

>> No.11778146

>>11777913
In Old Masters he makes fun of Heidegger and praises Wittgenstein in several books.

>> No.11778257

Korrektur, Frost, Die Billigesser and Gehen, in that order, are my favorites. Der Untergeher and Ja are the only ones I didn't really like and I have read everything except for Auslöschung and his plays.

>>11777986
There is Der Stimmenimitator which is a compilation of about 100 flash fiction stories, none of which is longer than 2 pages. It's pretty good but also a bit repetitive and some stories seemed pointless to me.

Then there is Goethe Schtirbt, a posthumously released collection of four stories ranging from, I think, 30 to 40 pages, except for the last which is only a few pages. I can recommend it, especially the first story, about Goethe and Wittgenstein, is superb.

And there's also a short story collection called Erzählungen with like 15 stories, some of them among the first things he's written and it shows. His style is really that refined there as it later is and he also doesn't employ his usual first person narrator (which isn't a bad thing, Frost isn't written in his trademark style either and is among his best). But if you like Bernhard, you should read them.

All things considered, his shorter stuff in general isn't as good as his longer wirks and you're better off starting with one of his shorter novels, for example Gehen.

>> No.11778599

Bump

>> No.11778934

bump

>> No.11779677

>>11778257
thank you for posting this, I'll start with Walking or Wittgenstein's Nephew

>> No.11780284

>>11778092
heidegger btfo

>> No.11781598

>>11776017
God I wish that were me.

>> No.11782781

>>11779677
I have to add that I also haven't read his autobiographic books which include Wittgenstein's Nephew. I heard that they're great though so it might be a good starting point.

>> No.11784126

>>11780284
Not really though.