Astonishingly original, a composition of strange new beauty.
The Nation As readers we are in the relentless grip of Bernhard. One marvels at the consistency of his austere vision.
The New York Times Book Review Remarkable. . . . Bernhard s prose is lapidary and translucent.
Times Literary Supplement (London)
Little by little, with supernatural patience, prodigious cunning and craft like Joseph Heller in
Catch-22 Bernhard fashions an original angle of vision that transforms our understanding. We see elephants beside us in a room where no one mentions elephants.
John Edgar Wideman,
O, The OprahMagazine"
"Astonishingly original, a composition of strange new beauty."
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The Nation "As readers we are in the relentless grip of Bernhard. One marvels at the consistency of his austere vision."
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The New York Times Book Review "Remarkable. . . . Bernhard's prose is lapidary and translucent."
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Times Literary Supplement (London)
"Little by little, with supernatural patience, prodigious cunning and craft--like Joseph Heller in
Catch-22--Bernhard fashions an original angle of vision that transforms our understanding. We see elephants beside us in a room where no one mentions elephants."
--John Edgar Wideman,
O, The Oprah Magazine
'Thomas Bernhard is one of the masters of contemporary European fiction. After Kafka's and Canetti's, his sensibility is one of the most acute, the most capable of exemplary images and gestures, in modern literature.' George Steiner, Times Literary Supplement