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Thomas Bernhard

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Austrian author mentioned alongside Robert Walser as someone whose work explores themes of desperation and theatrical drama.

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"what they want most ends up being denied to eluding them them their entire lives. it's really sad. but it's also great drama (in the theatrical sense). thinking about this and wanting to read something by thomas bernhard or robert walser."
desperate people never make it in life · u/[deleted] · ↑109 · 2022-12-21
"For me: 1. Proust - Swann's Way 2. Virginia Woolf - The Waves 3. Yasunari Kawabata - Thousand Cranes 4. Louis-Ferdinand Céline - Journey to the end of the Night 5. Thomas Bernhard - Extinction"
"Our next book, initially censored in Vienna, is *Woodcutters* by Thomas Bernhard ([book intro thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/RSbookclub/comments/pw5fyd/next_book_woodcutters_by_thomas_bernhard/?)). We'll make a discussion Q&A thread for the first half on Friday, October 8th and for the second half"
/r/RSBookClub Update · u/rarely_beagle · ↑86 · 2021-09-27
"the loser by thomas bernhard, it is like beckett but done in slightly less refined one. I sorta related to this book because I have habit of perfectism and if I'm not better than everyone then I will probably loss interest in whatever stuff im doing."
few books I read in past few weeks · ephemeralComment · ↑45 · 2023-07-13
"the loser by thomas bernhard, it is like beckett but done in slightly less refined one"
few books I read in past few weeks · u/ephemeralComment · ↑45 · 2023-07-13
"I find it hard to describe Bernhard's books because they are just so distinctive in terms of his unrelenting opinionated style of describing his darkly humorous albeit incisive thoughts."
I read 'Wittgenstein's Nephew' by Thomas Bernhard · u/Travis-Walden · ↑22 · 2023-04-22
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