Thomas Bernhard

b. Nicolaas Thomas Bernhar

Country

Austria

Languages

German

Dates

1931 — 1989

modern europe🕊️postwar⬆️avant-garde

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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.