Thomas Bernhard?

yeah I've got 'correction' and 'the loser' - think I might actually have a third now around here somewhere - anyway will drop them into you

One other thing about that interview - at one point Bernhard is asked:

Your style is so distinctive that it has prompted numerous pastiches and parodies...

Does anyone know of an author who has done a pastiche?

By coincidence I was just reading about Horacio Castellanos Moya: he has published a book called El asco, Thomas Bernhard en El Salvador (untranslated, wiki says it is a tribute to Bernhard)

His book, Senselessness, definitely owes a stylistic debt to Bernhard but is not a pastiche.

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Was just reading about Senselessness. Sounds great.

more like suckhard

i read most of Bernhard but still didnt read limeworks and woodcutters.

which of the two is better?

Woodcutters is a beautiful (good stuff on Woolf and the theatre) but I've not read Limeworks.

Zeno have you read Yaakov Shabtai (I've filled out an ILL for Past Continuous)?

yes, Past Continuous is one of my favourite novels. and it's an Israeli classic.
Shabtai was a talented, unique writer. too bad so many mediocre imitators followed him.

Bernhard and Shabtai shared some aspects of pessimistic philosphy notions , but they differ in style.

They both wrote in a paragraphless style, right? (although from the little I have read that is broken up a bit in the English version)

Piece in the LRB

this news story is straight out of bernhard:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/05/man-drowns-himself-austrian-lake-concrete-block-wife-head-inside

Jelinek is still around so god knows what she can do w/that.

"Everything in an intellectual mind is anarchy."

reading the abish memoir and the part where abish reads bernhard in vienna making me want some bernhard.

This is an indepedent translation of a book published a few years ago by his estate agent (and Bernhard's friend for about a decade), an account of many conversations with Bernhard.

http://shirtysleeves.blogspot.com/2019/02/preface-at-certain-point-in-his-long.html

Only have the 1st part so far (covering Jan '72) but its often really fucking funny in places.

OK, this is hilarious.

We’ve often spoken about his death before. He’s changed his mind three times about where he wants to be buried. First it was Vienna, then Ohlsdorf, and now it’s Neukirchen bei Altmünster. During such conversations Thomas has repeatedly stressed that suicide, which is certainly the way that other people think he’s most likely to die, is something he’ll never commit no matter what. He isn’t about to do the world such a favor. Now he didn’t contradict me. He said that in the event of such a serious accident resulting in the loss of a leg, it would all be over for him, literally and completely over, because walking for hours on end is something he’s quite simply got to do. Thomas rolls up the two pairs of trousers so that he can take them with him to use in washing up and DIY work later on.

Just started Yes, my first Bernhard.

I read that a couple of weeks ago! Not my first, and not his best, but still very good.

Picked up Woodcutters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSHmANet3Ag

Fantastic. I had never seen or heard him before.

I've always imagined per Woodcutters that this guy remains permanently seated, alarmed to see him get up and walk around halfway into this

The person who did the subs for that has translated a lot of Bernhard stuff in his blog and is now having this one published next month:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cheap-Eaters-Thomas-Bernhard/dp/1943679134

Walking is his among his best for me, just astonishing.

That isn't very much mentioned. I might just get it

I want to try Jen Craig this year, here is a short interview where she talks about Bernhard a bit.

https://shortaustralianstories.com.au/q-a-with-jen-craig/

She’s amazing.