Thomas Bernhard
Austrian playwright and novelist (1931–1989)
- Fame56.6
- Momentum0.0
- Austria rank#248
AustriaAn Austrian novelist who spent three decades savaging Austria itself — its Nazi evasion, its small-town smugness, its cultural fakery — in prose so merciless and distinctive that George Steiner ranked him with Kafka and Musil, then tried to ban his own work from his homeland for 70 years after death.
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Born out of wedlock in the Netherlands in 1931, Bernhard grew up shuttled between Austrian grandparents and boarding homes, closest to his grandfather, the novelist Johannes Freumbichler, who opened the door to literature. Pleurisy and tuberculosis struck him as a teenager; he spent years in a sanatorium, began writing, and met Hedwig Stavianicek, the wealthy heiress he later called the most important person in his life. His 1963 breakthrough Frost launched two decades of novels and plays marked by long monologues, obsessive repetition, and protagonists teetering toward madness — Correction in…
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