Essays
some in the form of reviews
about Bernhard and his work
Please see Bibliography for links to others on line, and Works for reviews of individual works.

American Writers Reading Bernhard
by Francis Michael Sharp
TRANS. Internet-Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften No. 17/2008.

Reconsidering Thomas Bernhard's Correction
by David Sepanik
Quarterly Conversation, Spring 2006

Admiration Journey
by Jonathan Taylor on his visit to Bernhard's house
The Believer.

L’ordre du discours chez Thomas Bernhard:
Pour une invitation à la lecture de Bernhard
by Valéry Pratt

(English version to come)

Failing to Go Under
by Stephen Mitchelmore
1999


Reading Thomas Bernhard
by Richard Burgin
Context magazine


Misanthropy? Moralizing. Cynicism
(or, The Postmodern Preacher)
by Igor Marojevic
at Stephen Mitchelmore's
The Gaping Void

Fantasies of the Autobiographical Self:
Thomas Bernhard, Raymond Federman, Samuel Beckett
by Alfred Hornung


Thomas Bernhard and His Prizes
by Gabriel Josipovici
New Statesman, January 13, 2011

The Art of Extinction: The bleak laughter of Thomas Bernhard
by Ruth Franklin
The New Yorker, December 26, 2006

Misery loves nothing: The inimitable Thomas Bernhard
by Ben Marcus
Harper's Magazine, November 2006

“Die Teufelskunst unserer Zeit”? Photographic Negotiations in
Thomas Bernhard’s Auslöschung

by J. J. Long

Thomas Bernhard
by Jason M. Baskin
Boston Review, Summer 2002.
On Thomas Bernhard: The Making of an Austrian, Gathering Evidence, Correction, and Gargoyles.

Review essays
by Bob Corbett
Concrete April 2001
Wittgenstein's Nephew April 2001.
Correction January 2001
Woodcutters July 2001
On the Mountain July 2001

Fear and loathing in Vienna - Thomas Bernhard's subjects
by Rhonda Lieberman
ArtForum, January 1994  


 

 

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