Works:Thomas Bernhard


Works (also see Bibliography)
Novels
	On the Mountain written 1959, published 1989 with an afterword by the translator Sophie Wilkins. Book Depository UK
	Frost 1963 English translation by Michael Hoffmann 2008 First chapter at the NY Times. "The Heart in Winter" Christopher Benfey review in the NY Times Sunday Book Review Amazon US * Book Depository UK
	Gargoyles 1967
	The Lime Works 1970
	Correction 1975. "Bernhard's prose is lapidary and translucent in its vocabulary, but sinuous and formidably dense in its phrasing. This prose enacts the essential motif of the novel: the notion that every 'correction' is also a negation . . . . The remarkable point is the extent to which the ascetic compactness of Bernhard's style turns these abstractions into a sensory presence . . . . [Bernhard's] connections, at once developmental and contrastive, with the great 'Austrian' constellation of Hofmannsthal, Kafka, Musil and Broch become ever clearer." —George Steiner, Times Literary Supplement, from the review that first brought Bernhard's name to prominence in the UK and US. Amazon US * Amazon UK Reconsidering Thomas Bernhard's Correction by David Sepanik Quarterly Conversation, Spring 2006
	Yes 1978.
	The Cheap-Eaters 1980.
	Gathering Evidence 1981-82. Five parts of a memoir, originally published individually, later collected into a single volume, reissued in March 2003.
	Concrete 1982.
	Wittgenstein's Nephew 1982.
	The Loser 1983. The first part of Bernhard's trilogy of the arts, about music.
	Cutting Timber: an Irritation 1984. Second part of the arts trilogy,about the theatre; the title has also been rendered as Woodcutters.
	Old Masters: a Comedy 1985. The third part of the arts trilogy, about painting. It contains a famous extended attack on Heidegger, "that ridiculous Nazi philistine in plus-fours," reproduced here.
	Extinction 1986.
	The Voice Imitator Very short stories, 104 in as many pages. Excerpts from The Voice Imitator A review of The Voice Imitator in the NY Times and at the Review of Contemporary Fiction
	Three Novellas Amras, Playing Watten and Walking. University of Chicago Press, 2003. Walking, originally published in 1971, was fairly recently published in translation by Conjunctions magazine, where an excerpt is available. Review at Waggish of Walking, February 2003.
Plays
	The Force of Habit. Transl. by Neville and Stephen Plaice (London: Heinemann Performed at the National Theatre, London, in 1976. Details of that production. In 2006, an Italian production in Perugia.
	The President. Transl. by Gitta Honegger (New York: Performing Arts Journal Publications, 1982).
	Eve of Retirement. Transl. by Gitta Honegger (New York: Performing Arts Journal Publications, 1982).
	Histrionics 1990 Three of Bernhard's many plays: "A Party for Boris," "Ritter, Dene, Voss," and "Histrionics."
	Heldenplatz His last play, surrounded by controversy when it was condemned by former UN Secretary General, Austrian President, and Waffen SS Officer Kurt Waldheim; also published in Conjunctions, No. 33, Fall 1999, but the text in not on line. http://www.conjunctions.com/conj33.htm .
Poetry
	In Hora Mortis translated by James Reidel. Princeton University Press, 2006. Interview with the translator James Reidel at Mark Thwaite's Ready, Steady, Book Review at The Complete Review Publisher's page -- Excerpts Amazon
	The Lunatics The Inmates translated by James Reidel Text at Conjunctions site in English and in German.
Books about Thomas Bernhard
	Three-Part Inventions: The Novels of Thomas Bernhard Thomas Cousineau. University of Delaware Press, 2008. "A body needs at least three points of support, not in a straight line, to fix its position." -- Correction Publisher's description Available at Amazon
	Thomas Bernhard: the Making of an Austrian by Gitta Honnegger 2002. Review from the Independent by Martin Chalmers, February 2002. at the New Criterion by Eric Ormsby, February 2003. at The Arts Fuse by Bill Marx.
	The Novels of Thomas Bernhard: Form and Its Function by J. J. Long 2001. Review by Stephen Mitchelmore of the Long and Honegger titles at Spike Magazine.
	A Companion to the Works of Thomas Bernhard Edited by Matthias Konzett 2000
	Thomas Bernhard Werkgeschichte Jens Dittmar, editor 1992 [in German] A comprehensive listing of all of Bernhard's writings in chronological order with an extended bibliography and list of translations of his works, included here because of its usefulness to English readers.
	L'Objecteur d'esprit Bernhard: Une transformation by Pierre Wolfcarius [in French] Forthcoming from Les Editions de l'Amandier, Paris, in 2011. English description of the book from the author.
	Thomas Bernhard Portraits: Bilder & Texte [in German] by Sepp Dreissinger 1991 available at Amazon.de Thomas Bernhard. Portraits. Bilder und Texte, edited by Sepp Dreissinger, with an introduction by Wieland Schmied, designed by Erika Schmied and Richard Pils, published in 1992 in an edition of 3333 copies, should not be left off a list even if it is essentially of English-language works. The publisher Richard Pils is owner of the small publishing house Verlag Bibliothek der Provinz located in Weitra, a town of 3000 in lower Austria, far from large cities. The location, an invitation to reflections about globalization and centralisation, explains the 'Provinz' of the name; Richard Pils chose 'Bibliothek' to emphasize that his publishing house was in fact no more than an expansion of his own library. Before meeting Richard Pils, the photographer, founding member (1981) of the Galerie Fotohof in Salzburg, who also edited the book, Sepp Dreissinger, had approached many publishers in both Austria and Germany in an effort to realize his idea of a true portrait of Thomas Bernhard, but in vain: no one was interested, a shocking fact to Richard Pils. In the end he and Sepp Dreissinger embarked upon the project, and after many difficulties and surprising turns of events both bad and good, created this fine book. [Anja Zeidler] The photos Thomas Bernhard by Sepp Dreissinger enhance the pages of this site, each having a link to the photographer's site. We are grateful to have them, and repeated attempts to contact him through his web site to request permission have failed; messages have bounced from all five e-mail addresses on his site.