The arrival of Douglas Robertson’s new translation of Thomas Bernhard’s Die Billigesser in a compact paperback from Spurl Editions came just as I h…
Today's date means it is thirty years since Thomas Bernhard died. Twenty years ago I wrote a short introduction to his work for Spike Magazine…
The saints were uneducated. Why, then, do they write so well? Is it only inspiration? They have style whenever they describe God. It's easy to …
What draws me back to Thomas Bernhard's novels is the wish to appreciate again how each is set in motion. The Loser begins like this. Even Gle…
My most recent post, The authorisation to invent , criticises the dominant mode of fiction as practised in English, with the main complaint being tha…
More Thomas Bernhard (content deleted now). Thanks be given to Douglas Robertson for completing this Liebe zur Sache. Thomas Bernhard. Yes, I know…
Going back to a beloved novel after many years can be a disconcerting experience. Often you wonder what you saw the first time around to prompt such …
After days of inert wondering why Thomas Bernhard's My Prizes felt like more than " a weakish book " and thereby, according to the dic…
“It is not every day one is sent a masterpiece to review”, wrote Gabriel Josipovici in reviewing WG Sebald's The Emigrants ; “(I suppose one …